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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![[ % ] rive of a difmal 9 Earthquake in Calabria., wherein himfelf was, and out of which he hardly efcaped with his life: nothing to be feen in the whole country he palled by, for two hundred miles in length, but the carcales of cities, and the horrible ruins of villages ; the inhabitants wandering about in the open fields, be¬ ing half dead with fear, and expedition of what might follow. But moft remarkable was the fubverfion of the noted town of St. Eufemia, which was quite loft out of their fight, and abforbed ; and, infhead there- of, nothing but a ftinking lake, &c. Italy and Sicily abound with fubterraneous fires, ef- pecially in the fouthern parts; which have broke out fo often, as to be called, by the ancient inhabitants, The Burnt Country. In fome places are feen perpe¬ tual burnings, as in fEtna, and Vefuvius ; in others, conflagrations by times: all Campania carries foot- Heps of fuch conflagrations. Mount iEtna hath often raged mightily, and hath been wont to do fo 1 almoft as many years before Chrift as fmce. Anno 1669, it broke out with violence, and overthrew all the adja¬ cent places with very great dofolation, forely threaten¬ ing Catanea itfelf, which is fmce wholly deflroyed by the late Earthquake. Thefe irruptions of mount ^Et¬ na and Vefuvius, are always accompanied with Earth¬ quakes, more or lefs: which fometimes do incredible mifchief in thofe parts. For inftance, Anno 1688, we have an account from 2 Naples, June the 8th, of an Earthquake there, which was accompanied with the rage and roaring of mount Vefuvius. 4 On Saturday 4 laft, the 5th inftant, about the 22d hour, happened 4 here a dreadful Earthquake, (though it lafted not 4 long) which, frightening the inhabitants out of their 4 houfes, with the terrors of an inevitable deffrudtion, 4 they betook themfelves to the piazza’s, and the open 4 publick places of the city. The old college of the • 9 Cited by Mr. Ray, p. 185. 1 Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneus. * London Gazette, 1688. N°. 2358, F< *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
