 | Philotheus - Earthquakes - 1748 - 210 pages
...The Day when all this befel us, was very clear, and afforded not the Sufpicion of the leaft Evil; but in the Space of three Minutes, about half an Hour after Eleven in the Morning, Port-Royal, the faireft Town of all the •Englijh Plantations, the beft Emporium and Mart of this... | |
 | William Whiston - Liturgics - 1753 - 380 pages
...Day when all this befel them was very clear, and afforded not the Sufpicion of the leaft Evil ; but in the Space of three Minutes, about Half an Hour after Eleven in the Morning, Port-Royal, the faireft Town of all the EngliJb Plantations, was fhaken and mattered to Pieces ; funk... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...this betel us was very clear, and afforded not the suspicion of the least evil; but in the sps'.ce of three minutes, about half an hour after eleven in the morning, Port-Royal, the fairest town of all the English plantations, the best emporium and mart of this part... | |
 | 1882 - 858 pages
...fairest town of all the English Plantations, the best emporium and mart of this part of the world, was shaken and shattered to pieces, sunk into and covered, for the greater part, by the sea ; and we guess that there are lost fifteen hundred persons, and many of them of good note. ' I came on board... | |
 | 1882 - 588 pages
...fairest town of all the English plantations, the best em porium and mart of this part of the world, was shaken and shattered to pieces, sunk into and covered, for the greater part, by the sea ; and we guess that there are lost fifteen hundred persons, and many of them of good note. " I came on board... | |
 | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts - Lancashire (England) - 1894 - 728 pages
...emporinm and mart of 'that part of the world, exceeding in its riches, plentifull in all good things, was shaken and shattered to pieces, sunk into and covered, for the greatest part, by the sea, and will, in a short time, be wholly eaten up by it, for few of these houses... | |
 | Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall - British West Indies - 1912 - 366 pages
...otherwise. The day when all this befel us was very clear, afforded not the suspicion of the least evil ; but in the space of three minutes, about half an hour after eleven in the morning, Port Royal, the fairest town of all the English plantations, the best emporium and mart of this part of the world,... | |
 | Frank Wesley Pitman - West Indies, British - 1917 - 546 pages
...212-215. The letters are dated June 22 and 28, 1692. afforded not the suspicion of the least evil; but in the space of three minutes, about half an hour after eleven in the morning, Port Royal, the fairest town of all the English plantations, the best emporium and mart of this part of the world,... | |
 | Royal Historical Society - History - 2012 - 320 pages
...emporium and mart of that part of the world, exceeding in its riches, plentifull in all good things, was shaken and shattered to pieces, sunk into and covered, for the greatest part by the sea, and will in a short time, be wholly eaten up by it, for few of those houses... | |
 | K.F. O'Loughlin, James F. Lander - Science - 2003 - 286 pages
...said, "In the space of three minutes, Port Royal, the fairest town in all the English plantations, was shaken and shattered to pieces, sunk into and covered, for the greater part, by the sea." A note on a 1720 British Admiralty chart said simply, "Port Royall Sunk." About two-thirds of the original... | |
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Port Royal, the fairest town of all the English plantations, the best emporium and mart of this part of the world, exceeding in its riches, plentiful of all good things, was shaken and shattered to pieces, and sunk into, and covered for the greatest part,... 