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Consequences of the Deluge.

f 0 stori ty> I shall give the Reader, withRemarks.

q*‘ He tells us in general, That this Earth-threw down almost all the Houses ,t L t,rc hes, Sugar-works, Mills and Bridgesth °j^ lout the whole Island : That it toret j Rocks and Mountains [others tell us,^ at tt levelled some Mountains, and reducedto Plains] that it destroyed some wholel stations, and threw them into the Sea jH 1 that Port-Roy al had much the greatestare in this terrible Judgment,f Then he acquaints us, what for to^ e the Reputation of the People , and toj ^d the laying a perpetual blot upon them,'hould rather suppress and conceal, but for» e vindication of the Divine Providence andb hee, and to deter others from the like^j°tmities, I think necessary to publish,^ the Inhabitants of that Place were ad e p Ungodly and debauched People, and so^‘perately wicked, that he was even afraidt j . c °ntinue among them: for that very dayls terrible Earthquake was, as loon as nightt i on,a company of lewd Rogues, whomtyT call Privateers, fell to breaking opencjo^houses and Houses deserted, to rob ande their Neighbours, whilst the Earthn sealed under them , and some of the0l Jses sell upon them in the Act. [ The

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