CONTENTS. Earthquakes at Caraccas-Connection of this pheno- NOTES TO THE FIFTH BOOK. CONTENTS. phenomenon with the volcanic eruptions of the West India islands. We left Caraccas on the 7th of February, in the cool of the evening, and began our journey to the Oroonoko. The remembrance of that departure is more painful to us now, than it was some years ago. Our friends have perished in the sanguinary revolutions, which have successively given liberty to those distant regions, and deprived them of it. The house which we inhabited is now a heap of ruins. Tremendous earthquakes have changed the surface of the soil. The city, which I have described, has dis |