A True and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake, which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746. With an account likewise of every thing material that passed there afterwards to the end of November following. Published at Lima by command of the viceroy, and translated from the original Spanish, by a gentleman who resided many years in those countries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lozano, Pedro, 1697-1752 26997, Author.

Contributor:

United States. Philadelphia.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

52p. ; 8⁰.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : London printed: Philadelphia reprinted, and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the new-printing-office, near the market, 1749.

Notes:

Running title: Account of the late earthquake.

Translated by Henry Johnson from an anonymous pamphlet, entitled Individual, y verdadera relacion de la extrema ruyna que padeciö .. Sometimes attributed to Pedro Lozano. Cf. the Dictionary of national biography, s.v. Johnson.

"Some considerations on the causes of earthquakes."--p. 42-52.

Microfilm. Woodbridge, Conn. : Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of Gale, 2004. 1 reel ; 35 mm. Unit 399. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 13946, no. 24). s2004 ctu b

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans, 6348

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1163

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 476