The Popular Science Monthly, Volumen40D. Appleton, 1892 |
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... Port Royal , after a voyage of two months , the time - keeper was five seconds slow ; and on returning to Eng- land , after five months , its error was less than a minute and a quarter . Harrison was not allowed the offered reward till ...
... Port Royal , after a voyage of two months , the time - keeper was five seconds slow ; and on returning to Eng- land , after five months , its error was less than a minute and a quarter . Harrison was not allowed the offered reward till ...
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... PORT ROYAL . THE BY COLONEL A. B. ELLIS . HE popular notion of the great catastrophe which overtook the city of Port Royal , Jamaica , in the year 1692 , is that the earth yawned open , taking in the unfortunate city , as it were at one ...
... PORT ROYAL . THE BY COLONEL A. B. ELLIS . HE popular notion of the great catastrophe which overtook the city of Port Royal , Jamaica , in the year 1692 , is that the earth yawned open , taking in the unfortunate city , as it were at one ...
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... Port Royal which is now standing , is said to stand upon a rock . . . . It seems strange that the force of the earthquake did not dissipate and dissolve the very foundation of it , and that it did not fall to pieces and scatter under ...
... Port Royal which is now standing , is said to stand upon a rock . . . . It seems strange that the force of the earthquake did not dissipate and dissolve the very foundation of it , and that it did not fall to pieces and scatter under ...
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... harbor . Jamaica historians tell us that this epidemic " slew thousands of the survivors , " but as they have limited the population of Port Royal to thirty - five hundred , and sixteen hundred of these perished in the earthquake ...
... harbor . Jamaica historians tell us that this epidemic " slew thousands of the survivors , " but as they have limited the population of Port Royal to thirty - five hundred , and sixteen hundred of these perished in the earthquake ...
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... Port Royal , concealed in dense bush , is the tomb of Lewis Galdy , a member of the Assembly of Port Royal , who fell into one of the crater - like pits caused by the subsidence of the sand , and was washed out again by the water ...
... Port Royal , concealed in dense bush , is the tomb of Lewis Galdy , a member of the Assembly of Port Royal , who fell into one of the crater - like pits caused by the subsidence of the sand , and was washed out again by the water ...
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