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The New Hampshire Gazette Foreign News July 22, 1757
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Letter from Lisbon, April 26, 1757, reporting the city still in ruins after the 1755 earthquake, the King in his wooden palace, a barracks fire destroying nearly 90 barracks, and French captures of British packets.
Quality yellow The extractor was unsure its transcription reads as real language, even though the scan measures clean. show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 97.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 95.44% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.49% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 90.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Lisbon, dated April 26, 1757.
From the 9th of February to this Day, we have had one continual Sun shine:— In the several Quarters of the last Moon, we have had no Repetitions of EARTHQUAKES; which cannot be said of the 17 Revolutions of that Planet, since November 1st 1755. (The Day, never to be forgotten, when that rich and famous City met with that amazing Desolation, as has been heretofore published.)— The City continues yet as a Scene of miserable Ruins:— The King continues in his wooden Palace:-Nothing can persuade the Queen to reside one Day in a Place surrounded with Walls: When they go a Hunting, they sleep in Tents:— A large Timber Custom House is erecting in the Rebecro. —A Fire broke out lately in one of the Barracks of the Rocio, which burnt down near 90 of them; and had it not been for the Soldiers, most of the People would have been burnt in their Beds. Three of our Packets have been taken by the French: one bound to this Place, by a Privateer of 35 Guns:—The Harwich and Groyne Packets; the former of which, is reported to have had a great Sum on board:—We have now a Gun Ship in Quelkefher.
From the 9th of February to this Day, we have had one continual Sun shine:— In the several Quarters of the last Moon, we have had no Repetitions of EARTHQUAKES; which cannot be said of the 17 Revolutions of that Planet, since November 1st 1755. (The Day, never to be forgotten, when that rich and famous City met with that amazing Desolation, as has been heretofore published.)— The City continues yet as a Scene of miserable Ruins:— The King continues in his wooden Palace:-Nothing can persuade the Queen to reside one Day in a Place surrounded with Walls: When they go a Hunting, they sleep in Tents:— A large Timber Custom House is erecting in the Rebecro. —A Fire broke out lately in one of the Barracks of the Rocio, which burnt down near 90 of them; and had it not been for the Soldiers, most of the People would have been burnt in their Beds. Three of our Packets have been taken by the French: one bound to this Place, by a Privateer of 35 Guns:—The Harwich and Groyne Packets; the former of which, is reported to have had a great Sum on board:—We have now a Gun Ship in Quelkefher.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Naval Affairs
War Report
What keywords are associated?
Lisbon Earthquake Aftermath
Lisbon Ruins
Barracks Fire
French Capture British Packets
What entities or persons were involved?
The King
The Queen
Where did it happen?
Lisbon
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Lisbon
Event Date
April 26, 1757
Key Persons
The King
The Queen
Outcome
barracks fire destroyed near 90 barracks; three british packets taken by the french.