text:  "The unceasing and urgent works which the calamitous earthquake of November 1st 1755 had rendered indispensable were still vigorously pursued when in the following year one Mestre Frei Joao de Mansilla presented himself at the Giunta at Belem on the part of the principal husbandmen of Upper Douro and of the respectable inhabitants of Oporto in a state of utter consternation