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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![[ §3 ] ferved to follow Earthquakes, as to natural, civil, and ecclefiaftical affairs : let me mention fbme inftances. Three cities in 5 Cyprus fell by an Earthquake, in the time of Vefpafian and Titus, followed with a great peltilence at Rome. In Julian's 6 time there were fe- veral great Earthquakes, followed with a terrible fa¬ mine at Alexandria, and in Egypt 7, An. Do. 342, Conftantius made feveral beneficial laws for the people, and renewed the pi ivileges granted to artificers. It is obferved he was conftrained there¬ unto by a fenfe of publick calamities : for during the war writh Perfia, and about thofe times, great mifchiefs had proceeded from many and mod terrible 8 Earth- 'quakes. St. Jerom in his Chronicon tells us, that the following the death of Conftans the younger, many cities of the Eaft fell to the ground by an horrible mo¬ tion of the earth. And feme three years after this, that Neocasfarea was overturned, and ail its inhabitants pe- rifhed, except fuch as were faved with the bifhop in the church : as alfo that the year following this, and preceding the building of the Haven in Seleucia, Dir- rachium was by an Earthquake demolifhed, Rome > trembled for three days, and as many nights, and many towns of Campania were forely troubled. To theie Cedrenus adds, that in the fourth or fifth year of Conftantius, Antioch was endangered by an Earth¬ quake of three days continuance ; that in his eighth year Rhodes was much diftreffed by the fame accident that when Dirrachium, the city of Dalmatia, perifhed, and Rome was in flich danger, twelve cities of Campa¬ nia were deftroyed : And that in the 12th year of Con¬ ftantius, the greater part of Berytus, the city of Phae- nicia, alfo mifearried. In which year alfo happened an 5 Orofms, 1. 7. c. 9. '6 Sozomen, 1. 6. c. 2. Theodoret, 1. 4. c. 4. 7 See Hottingeri Difiert. de Terrae motu, Diff, 4. quaeft. 3. Unde Terrae motus immittantur, (mtne fortuni, pure naturales, an dLTOt. i * HoweFs Gen, Hift. Vo). 2. p. S3, 84, G 2 eclipfe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
