Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nursery, wliere she and her attendant joined in prayer. In a few minutes the wall of the room fell upon them, and both were killed. A nurse in the same room was also killed; yet an infant daughter of the governor’s, Avho was lying in her arms, escaped Avithout the least in- jury, a silver cup which she had held in her hand as a plaything, having been crushed forcibly by one of the falling masses, which had provi- dentially missed her. In the cradle lay a little babe, the cradle was partly filled with fallen rubbish, but the infant was not in the least hurt. Many other persons were found crushed by the fallen masses. Some of the escapes from the elfects of this distressing calamity were almost miraculous. The governor himself was fast asleep at the moment when the explosion occurred. He Avas actually carried away in his bed, and deposited upon the battlement of a wall which was battered by the sea, and yet remained asleep. It is said that he was first awoke to a sense of his dreadful calamities by a shower of hail falling on his face. Very possibly, he re- ceived a slight concussion in his fall, which rendered him insensible for a short time, as It is wholly inconceivable that he should na- tui'ally have remained asleep under such cir- cumstances. The house in which the governor