88 Consequences of the Deluge.

like Robbers and Plunderers w e were cowandered up and down the Country, evein the very smoke, during the last 8^-,burning and eruption of Ætna in Sicity-J

And those audacious Whores that rema 111 '

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still upon the Place, were as impudent ^drunken as ever; and that the since the East‘squake, when lie was on shore to pray :the bruited and dying People, and tosten Children, he met with too many dm 0and {’wearing. And in his second Letter, 1 ^faith positively, That there was not aungodly People on the Face of the Earth.

3. The Account he gives of the Moti 0 ^and Effects of the Earthquake is as lollopeth : The day when this Calamity befel t* 1Town and Island was very clear, afford 10 *’not any suspicion of the least evil. [is observ ed of most Earthquakes, and p^ 1cularly of our last here in England , 1morning before it being clear and calm.r 11in the {pace of three Minutes, about haU 3hour after Eleven in the Morning,Royal , the fairest Town in all the Ens?Plantations, [and well might he call it ’if as he writes in another place of his Let te ’most of the Houses upon the Wharfbuilt of Brick, and as fair as those in Ch ei, ffide , London ] the best Emporium and ,

this part of the World, exceeding in st‘ c ^