Earthquakes and sea-withdrawals in the Indies: what two Jesuit naturalists put on the page, 1590-1646

Two centuries before Lisbon 1755, a Jesuit in Peru wrote a chapter on earthquakes that separates them from volcanoes, places them on coasts, reports the great ones running in order from Chile to Quito, and describes the sea coming ashore twice. He also records why Lima's dead were counted in tens rather than thousands. A second Jesuit, in Chile, argues the opposite about volcanoes. Both are printed here with their hedges.