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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25418	An Account of the late terrible earthquake in Sicily with most of its particulars / done from the Italian copy printed at Rome.		1693 (1693)	Wing A316; ESTC R1120	14,513	36

of the 11 th there is a Hill thrown over or rather athwart one of these Cataracts for some twenty paces breadth so that in that place the River is not to be seen but creeps under the Hill and comes out again in its own ordinary Channel below The same Accident has happened to several Rivulets in Sicily the Earth being torn from the Brink and thrown over the Rivulet as it were in the form of a Vault or natural Bridge The Village Bisenti felt all the shakes that happened but received no other damage than the fall of some of the Houses and the Bruising to Death of about a Hundred Persons Francofonte a very pretty Town and well Inhabited but Built most of Timber received little damage by the Earthquake though it shook down some Houses but what the Earthquake did not the Lightning and Thunder did For never was there seen so terrible a Storm of both these last than Francofonte felt for three days together The Spire of the Steeple which was built of Wood and covered with Lead was burnt down and the Nunnery of the Carmelites was almost utterly destroyed and that so suddenly that five of the Nuns was stifled to Death in their Beds If the Wind had been high as it was not certainly the whole Town had been burnt to Ashes but by reason of the Calmness of the Wind and the Care of the Inhabitants there were not above twelve or fourteen Houses burnt Carlontini a Town of good Trade and very well Inhabited was greatly shaken on the 9 th several Houses being thrown down and the People buried in their Ruins On the 10 th the Bishop and Magistrates exhorred the Inhabitants to remove out of the Town to the Fields for even then there was some small tremblings of the Earth felt almost every half Hour The People began to get out of Town on the 10 th about Four a Clock in the Afternoon and most were gone with the best things they could carry with them when the shake of the 11 th overturn'd the whole Town in a Moment with what remain'd of the Inhabitants The Place might contain about 4000 People and it 's thought about a sixth part have perish'd in the Earthquake There scarce can be found in any part of the World a more Beautiful Town than Ragusa It s Scituation Buildings Churches Monasteries and Territories about it combine to make it a sort of Terrestrial Paradise It felt a great many small shakings on the 8 th with a mighty Tempest of Lightning and Thunder The shake of the 9 th did some but no great hurt but that of the 11 th overturn'd the Town-house a very Superb Edifice two Churches and a great many Houses One Street the biggest of the Town and Inhabited by the best Merchants and Tradesmen of the Place was overwhelm'd in less than the Second of a Minute the Earth sinking down and leaving a vast Casma where the Street was One of the Churches sunk after the manner the Street had done but the other fell down It 's not yet known how many People perished in Ragusa but the least Calculation has been made of them amounts to 8000 Souls of whom the Citizens of the best Quality make up a great part of the number There is to be seen from the Brink of this Casma I mentioned the Tops of some of the Houses a great way below the Superfice of the ground and out of this Cavity there comes a Sulphurous Smell like to choak any body that comes near it One of the Churches that are Ruin'd was that of Sancta Barbara Famous through all Sicily for the Miracles done at the Shrine of that Saint and in which was some of the best Sculpture especially that of the Altar-piece that could be seen in any place of the Christian World The Town of Scodia felt the shakes of the 9 th and 11 th as fiercely as any Yet which was strange the Town it self received no damage but the Bishop's Palace a very Beautiful and new Building was overturn'd on the 9 th and about Twenty four Persons perish'd in its Ruins The Bishop had not gone out but an Hour before having held a Meeting of his Diocess in the Chappel of his Palace in the Morning so that he and they were all sav'd Specafurno a Town of a considerable bigness lying on the South side of a Hill all planted with Vineyards and very well Inhabited fell under the common Calamity The shake of the 9 th did it but little hurt only the Convent of the Capuchins was destroyed but all the 10 th from Morning till Night there was never heard so violent a Storm of Thunder and Lightning as if Heaven and Earth had been mixing together By the Lightning the Town-house a very Regular Building was burnt down to the Ground with several other Houses Some few of the Inhabitants fled out of the Town on the 10 th at Night and so escaped the Destruction that befel the rest upon the 11 th That shake brought over the whole Town in a Moments time and there now remains nothing but vast heaps of Rubbish where Specafurno stood To the South side of the Town about a Mile there lyes a very pleasant fresh-Water Lake abounding in Fish which now is almost all dry Land only what Water remains in one end of it is of a Brinish Taste and of a Black Colour the Fish being all dead on the Shore It 's remark'd by the Peasants that live on the Hills about this Town that the Thunder and Lightning which happened on the 10 th has so far burnt all the Vines that they expect no Grapes to grow on them next Year Not only so but they smell a sort of Sulphurous Smell and feel a kind of a Bituminous Dew upon the Ground all thereabout The People that perish'd in Specafurno are computed to amount to 3500 at least there being about 300 only that sav'd themselves by a timely flight the day before Sicily could not brag of a better-built Town and a Place of better Trade considering its distance from the Sea than the Town of Scichito was This Place seem'd to be design'd by Nature to fall by an Earthquake for within these Fifty Years it has been in hazard Eight times Five Years ago it had a very considerable shake which indamaged several of the Houses and overturn'd a Church Dedicated to St. Roch. But all this was nothing to what befel it in this last Earthquake The trembling of the Earth began to be felt on the 8 th at Night and within twenty four Hours time there succeeded above twenty shakes one after another the last still exceeding the first in violence At last the shake of the 11 th instead of overturning the Town as in most other Places the Earth here sunk down and in less than two Moments the Town vanish'd our of sight In its room there is now a stinking Pool of Water where the Dome of the Church of St. Stephen