I had no sooner stepped do ground, than I plainly saw it was a terrible earthquake, for the ground I stood on shook three times at about eight minutes’ distance, with three such shocks as would have overturned the strongest building that could be supposed to have stood on the earth; and a great piece of the top of a rock which stood about half a mile from me next the sea fell down with such a terrible noise as I never heard in all my life.
Le sol sur lequel j'étais s'ébranla trois fois à environ huit minutes de distance, et ces trois secousses furent si violentes, qu'elles auraient pu renverser l'édifice le plus solide qui ait jamais été. Un fragment énorme se détacha de la cime d'un rocher situé proche de la mer, à environ un demi-mille de moi, et tomba avec un tel bruit que, de ma vie, je n'en avais entendu de pareil.