8vo. 32pp. Stitched in original publisher's buff printed wrappers. Some creasing and a little marking to wrappers, else a crisp copy on unusually fine paper for a Tegg production (likely explained by the fact that the printing was completed by Bradbury and Evans).

'About half-past ten o'clock, A.M., a low, hollow, rumbling sound was perceived, like to the approach of some heavy piece of artillery, - then a tremour of the earth was felt, slight at first, - but which, increasing with fearful violence, caused the inhabitants to fly from their houses in the greatest consternation...as the stone dwelling-houses and stores were crashed and crushed...the wooden buildings waved to and fro...while the solid ground literally heaved and trembled as the billows of the ocean do when stormy winds arise!'

An atmospheric account the 'havoc and devastations' caused by the 1843 Guadeloupe earthquake - the strongest then recorded in the Lesser Antilles - composed by an anonymous eyewitness in St. Kitts. Further accounts of the impact on the islands of St. Eustatia, Nevis, Montserrat and Antigua, the latter of which were visited by the author in the days following the disaster. Comprehensive details of the impact on the islands' civil, military and commercial infrastructure - including many named sugar plantations - feature throughout. The estimated cost of damage at the docks in Antigua alone are reported at '£20,000 to £30,000'. Reassuringly for bibliophiles, despite the tales of general woe and numerous deaths which occurred, it is noted that whilst the 'Antigua library is also greatly dilapidated; half of it is down', the 'superior collection of books are fortunately saved'.

Rare; OCLC locates copies at just four institutions worldwide (BL, Jamaica, Kings College, Wisconsin-Madison).