Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.
- John Shower
- Date:
- 1750
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![, .. , , „ l morning of the nth, who took the warning. But they were the better fort of people only, who had the opportunity to make fo happy an efcape, the reft falling under the univerfal ruin. In the place where Catanea flood, appears now, at a diflance, a great lake, with fome great heaps of rubbifh, appearing here and there above water. The fame fhake that utterly deftroyed Catanea, did lay in heaps more than half of SaragoiTa,] the an¬ cient Syracufa, once the greateft city of Sicily ; and* if we will believe Strabo and others, the larged, once, in the world, and may contend with any in Europe for antiquity. The lead computation that can be made of the lofs of the inhabitants of it, is above 7000 : And fome hundreds were digged out of the ruins alive, but lame and bruifed ; fo that few of them, it is thought, will recover. Moil of the magiftrates and people of beft fafhion, ran into the great church for fhelter, where they met with death, by the fall of the done roof, and the deeple both together. The city of Noto (which once contended for the pre-eminence with Syracufa itfelf) had yet a worfe fate : fcarce any part of it is now danding, though fituated on an high rock, almod inacceffibie on all fides, but by one narrow padage. The mighty hardnefs of the rock feemed to have fecured it from the hazard of Earthquakes; but it felt the fhake of the 9th ; and, on the ixth of January, it was, in a moment, laid in heaps: the number of the inhabitanss is computed about 7000, and very few are efcaped. Auguda, a city well fituated, and adorned with large and fafe harbours; a place of good trade for corn. The inhabitants reckoned near 6000, of whom we have account of none left; many killed on the 9th, more on the 10th, and the red buried by the over-turning of the town on the ixth. Lentini, the ancient Leontium, famous for a beau tiful lake on which it dood ^ a place of about 3000 families, and a' place of a tolerable trade by fifhing, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
