The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

NEW-PORT. May 6.

The Master of a Whaling Vessel, who arrived here last Saturday from Dominico, informs, That on the 5th ult. he put into that Island, and just after he had dropt anchor was surprised with a violent Motion of the Vessel, which made him imagine she had struck, but the Depth of Water convinced him it must be an Earthquake: That he went ashore the next Day, and was informed by a Frenchman that for two Months the Inhabitants had been almost continually under the Horrors of repeated Earthquakes: That he (the Master) believes he was sensible of not less than 150 Shocks while he was on Shore: That on Monday the 8th he sailed for St. Kitts, and the Friday following was not only informed by one Mr. French of that Island, but read in the St. Kitts Paper, that on Wednesday the 10th, the Windward Part of the Island of Dominica, said to be about one half, was entirely sunk or ingulfed in the Ocean, together with the Inhabitants belonging thereto: but the Number of the People we can't ascertain.--Dominica is one of the Caribee Islands, but little cultivated, lies 28 Miles N. of Martinico, and 146 N. W. of Barbados, inhabited chiefly by French. It was ceded to Great-Britain by the last Treaty of Peace.