A true and particular history of earthquakes. Containing a relation of that dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima and Callao, in Peru, October 28, 1746; publish'd at Lima by Command of the Vice-Roy, and now translated from the Original Spanish; also of that which happen'd in Jamaica in 1692, and of others in different Parts of the World. Accurately describing The dreadful Devastations that have been made by those horrible Convulsions of the Earth; whereby Mountains have been thrown down, or remov'd to great Distances; Cities, with all their Inhabitants, swallow'd up in a Moment; whole Flocks and Herds, with their Keepers, ingulph'd in the tremendous Chasms and Openings of Valleys; and large Forests sunk, and for ever buried in an Instant. Extracted from Authors of the most unexceptionable Credit and Reputation. By Philotheus.

Date:

1748