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. It is not likely, however, that this sensible suggestion

will be adopted, the experience of ages showing that after these awful catastrophes the survivors still cling to their ruined property, and consider` poverty preferable to abandoning their world as they have known it. The'Lord Mayor, indeed, has already opened a Mansion House fund for the distressed, and there is little doubt that the subscriptions will be sufficient to give the survivors a new start in the valleys not overwhelmed. By the latest accounts Kingston, the chief town, was still safe, but these accounts cannot, we fear, be fully relied on, as the ships which approach are driven back by showers of mud and ashes, which darken the sky.

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