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ding. Twelve monasteries, colleges, | | |and hospitals were likewise converted into | | |ruins. No better fared the palace of the | | |Governor-General, the Real Audiencia and | | |up to 150 of the finest residences which, | | |as one author puts it, "in other cities | | |would have been considerable palaces." The | | |rest of the private houses were damaged | | |to so great an extent that the majority | | |had to be demolished. The number of | | |persons killed exceeded 600 and the total | | |of killed and injured is stated to have | | |been 3,000. | | | | | |Outside of Manila there was a general | | |destruction of villas and other buildings | | |which had been erected on both banks of | | |the Pasig River. Throughout the | | |neighboring provinces the masonry | | |structures built by the missionaries | | |suffered the same fate as those in Manila. | | |From the farthest provinces in the north | | |were reported great alterations of the | | |surface with almost complete disappearance | | |of some native villages, changes in the | | |courses of rivers, subsidences of plains, | | |eruptions of sand, etc. All the writers of | | |the time qualify this disturbance as the | | |most disastrous earthquake not only in | | |Luzon, but likewise in Mindoro, | | |Marinduque, and the other islands south of | | |Luzon. On the other hand, the provinces of | | |Camarines and Albay appear to have | | |suffered little or nothing. | | | 13 |1645 XII 5 23 -- |VIII |The earthquake of November 30 was followed | |
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