CHAPTER X.. The Great Earthquake of Lisbon.

THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF LISBON.

A dreadful All Saints’ Day—The Victims of a Minute—Report of an Eye-witness—Conflagration—Banditti—Pombal brings Chaos into Order—Intrigues of the Jesuits—Damages caused by the Earthquake in other places; at Cadiz; in Barbary— Widespread Alarm—Remarks of Goethe on the Earthquake 114