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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Foreign News November 19, 1773
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A letter from Honduras Bay reports that the city of Guatemala was destroyed by an earthquake on 29 July 1773, with upwards of 90,000 people perished.
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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
- 2.6% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 93.49% 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
- 97.75% 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
- 95.0% (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
- 92.0% 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
NEW-YORK, November 4.
Extract of a letter from St. George's Key, dated Honduras Bay, August 29: 1773.
"The Garland, in her way hither, called at Port Omhoa; at which place she spoke a register ship bound for Old Spain, who gave the following melancholy account, viz. That on the 29th of July last the city of Guatemala was sunk by an earthquake, and upwards of 90,000 souls perished. It was but a few days before the Garland spoke the ship that she received the express to carry home. As this is the first vessel for America since we received the news, we beg you will have it inserted in your news-papers."
Extract of a letter from St. George's Key, dated Honduras Bay, August 29: 1773.
"The Garland, in her way hither, called at Port Omhoa; at which place she spoke a register ship bound for Old Spain, who gave the following melancholy account, viz. That on the 29th of July last the city of Guatemala was sunk by an earthquake, and upwards of 90,000 souls perished. It was but a few days before the Garland spoke the ship that she received the express to carry home. As this is the first vessel for America since we received the news, we beg you will have it inserted in your news-papers."
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
What keywords are associated?
Guatemala Earthquake
90,000 Dead
Honduras Bay Letter
Where did it happen?
Guatemala
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Guatemala
Event Date
29th Of July Last
Outcome
upwards of 90,000 souls perished; the city of guatemala sunk.