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EARTHQUAKE AT ‘LISBON-
of rebuilding the old, until those bodies have lain long
enough to be consumed.
Thus, my dear friend, have I given you a genuine,
though imperfect account, of this terrible judgment, which
has left so deep an impression on my mind, that I shall
never wear it off \ I have lost all the money I had by me,
and have saved no other clothes than what I have on my
back; but what I regret most, is the irreparable loss of my
books and papers. To add to my present distress, those
friends to whom I could have applied on any other occasion,
are now in the same wretched circumstances with myself.
However, notwithstanding all that I have suffered, I do not
think I have reason to despair, but rather to return my
gratefulest acknowledgments to the Almighty, who hath
so visibly preserved my life amidst such dangers, where so
many thousands perished ; and the same good Providence,
I trust, will still continue to protect me, and point out some
means to extricate myself out of these difficulties,
As the place is in such disorder and confusion, that the
administration of justice is put a stop to, and it is not likely
that any business will be carried on for some time I intend
to take my passage for England as soon as a convenient
opportunity offers. I am, &c.”
A WHIMSICAL SIGN.
Upon the door of a house near Bridgewater, occupied
by a father and son, the former a blacksmith and public
can, the latter a barber, is a board, with the following in-
scription :—u Barnes and Son, blacksmith and barber's
work done here ; horse-shoing and shaving, locks mend-
ed, hare curling, bleeding, teeth drawing, and all other
furriery work. All sorts of spiratus lickers according to
the late comical treaty,—Take notis my wife keeps skool
and lays fokes as ushall, teaches reding and citing, and
other langwatches, and has a sist aunts if required to teach
horitory, sowing, the mathew maticks, and all other fa-
shonablc divershons.”
Artificial
EARTHQUAKE AT ‘LISBON-
of rebuilding the old, until those bodies have lain long
enough to be consumed.
Thus, my dear friend, have I given you a genuine,
though imperfect account, of this terrible judgment, which
has left so deep an impression on my mind, that I shall
never wear it off \ I have lost all the money I had by me,
and have saved no other clothes than what I have on my
back; but what I regret most, is the irreparable loss of my
books and papers. To add to my present distress, those
friends to whom I could have applied on any other occasion,
are now in the same wretched circumstances with myself.
However, notwithstanding all that I have suffered, I do not
think I have reason to despair, but rather to return my
gratefulest acknowledgments to the Almighty, who hath
so visibly preserved my life amidst such dangers, where so
many thousands perished ; and the same good Providence,
I trust, will still continue to protect me, and point out some
means to extricate myself out of these difficulties,
As the place is in such disorder and confusion, that the
administration of justice is put a stop to, and it is not likely
that any business will be carried on for some time I intend
to take my passage for England as soon as a convenient
opportunity offers. I am, &c.”
A WHIMSICAL SIGN.
Upon the door of a house near Bridgewater, occupied
by a father and son, the former a blacksmith and public
can, the latter a barber, is a board, with the following in-
scription :—u Barnes and Son, blacksmith and barber's
work done here ; horse-shoing and shaving, locks mend-
ed, hare curling, bleeding, teeth drawing, and all other
furriery work. All sorts of spiratus lickers according to
the late comical treaty,—Take notis my wife keeps skool
and lays fokes as ushall, teaches reding and citing, and
other langwatches, and has a sist aunts if required to teach
horitory, sowing, the mathew maticks, and all other fa-
shonablc divershons.”
Artificial