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.
80/110 page 70
![t 7° ] 4 jefuits was ruined by it, alfo the great chapel of their c new college, together with three other chapels ad- 4 joining ; three of the fathers were killed there, befides 4 many others, whofe names are not yet known. The 4 front of another great church of the jefuits opened * in many cracks, and the great tower, or (leeple, 4 feemed ready to fall. In the Theatins convent of 4 the holy apoilles, a whole dormitory fell down, be- 4 fides other confiderable damage they received : and 4 the magnificent arch, eredted before the church of 4 St. Paul, belonging to the faid fathers, fell, together 4 with thofe great and ancient columns, that formerly 4 made part of the temple of Caftor and Pollux, there 4 remaining only four or them (landing, and thofe in a 4 tottering condition. Out of thofe ruins there have 4 been already dug nineteen perfons that were dead j and 4 there was reafon to fear that the Jmifchief might have 4 been much greater, it being fo near to a publick mar- 4 ket, where there were great throngs of people. The 4 walls of the great church of St. Dominick opened in 4 many places, and great part of the refectory fell down, 4 as alfo part of the adjoining palace, where many were 4 killed. Several other churches of the Auguftins, 4 were ruined : .and, in fhort, there is fcarce a palace 4 or houfe that has not received forne confiderable da- 4 mage. This occafioned very devout proceffions of 4 perfons of all ranks. The next day there was another 4 great (hock, which threw, down many of the houfes 4 that were before the mod weakened : and yefterday 4 there was another perceived but without much da- 4 mage •, but this day we have felt nothing of it. 4 However the proceffions continue in great numbers, 4 and the perfons of quality are all retired from hence. 4 In the neighbourhood oi l Alice, a city at fixteen 4 miles diftance from hence, a mountain opened, and 4 a courier frem Benevento, a city belonging to the 4 pope, brings an account, that it was all ruined, and 4 that of 6000 inhabitants there were but few left alive. 4 The archbi (hop’s palace there was thrown down j 4 and the archbiflion himfelf drawn cut of the ruins,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0080.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
