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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![[ «7 ] habitants were feized with an extraordinary madnefs, fuch as Teemed to exceed all ferority of wild beafts, and to be the prelude to that calamity which followed on the fourth day of the month Gorpiaeus, which the Romans call September, about the fourth hour of the night, and the fifty-fixth year of the life of Leo. It overturned almoft all the buildings of the new city, which was well peopled, and none of it forfaken or empty, being curiouily built by the magnificence of emperors, who ftrove to exceed each other in the adornment of it. The firft and fecond fabricks in the palace were alfo caft down, the reft {landing, together with a bath ; which, having formerly been negledied, now when by the Earthquake the reft were choaked up, {too the citizens in very good ftead. Many other damages of this Earthquake are there mentioned (with fome differences as to chronology) and theaiforder of publick matters, as the murder of Majorianusj oint emperor in the weft, with Leo in the eaft, &c . An. Dorn. 557, there was a violent Earthquake, with great noifes and tempefts, at Conftantinople and Rome, in 9 Juftinian’s time, followed the next year with a great plague at Conftantinople. The Earth- quake, which fhook that city three years before, laft> ed forty days, and deftro ed many places in. the eaft. In the year 648, before the 1 Saracens over-run A- frica, there were many great Earthquakes in the time of the Emperor Conftans. The like z Earthquakes fol¬ lowed with great calamities in the eaft, were obferved. Anno In the year 740, was another at Conftantinople, which alfo deftroyed many cities of Afia, and lafted a twelve-month. This- was thought to 1 forebode the death of the Emperor Leo, the lofs of Artabaldus, and the conqueft of Conftantinople, which foon after fol¬ lowed. 9 Agathius, who continued the hiftory of Procopius. 1 Cent. Magdeburg, cent. 7. c. 13. 1 Jngruentium malorum prsenuncius. Cluver. p. 350, 406. i Cent. Magdebf cent. 8, C. 13. Cluver. p. 358. _ G 4- In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
