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at Zurich ; and on Feb. 22. and March 21., in other places ; and in 

 1676, March 29., at Turgovie, at 11 p.m.: supposed to be the 

 ignition of sulphureous vapours in the atmosphere. [On March 21. 

 (April 2.) 1676, a great meteor passed over Italy, making a great 

 noise. {P. T. y 1714.)] 



1680. July 24. Many places in Switzerland, particularly Neufchatel, 

 Yverdun, and Orbe, were shaken. At Orbe there was, for 

 several minutes after, a long murmuring sound. The shock was 

 immediately followed by storms of wind and hail storms, and extra- 

 ordinary rains. Great inundations also took place ; and so much 

 water was never before seen near Orbe and Yverdun. [On May 22., 

 this year, there was a great meteor all over Germany. {P. T.)] 



1688. A year of storms and tempests, which desolated Switzerland nearly 

 throughout. Naples and Smyrna were nearly overthrown this 

 year. 



[1692. Jamaica shaken; followed by a stinking vapour, which caused 

 the sky to become as red as an oven. {Relation, fyc.~)~\ 



1693. Jan. 9. Shocks felt severely at Lausanne, Orbe, Yverdun, &c. : 

 lakes unusually high. The season was very cold ; but it became 

 warm all at once. Same day, Sicily and Lower Calabria violently 

 shaken, and injured. 



1704. Nov. 4. (between 4 and 5 a.m.) Zurich and its territory shaken. 

 At the same moment, a violent wind, with lightning and thunder, 

 and abundant rain, occurred at Basle. 



1720. December 20. (5£ a. m.) St. Gall, Turgovie, and the Lake of 



Constance shaken. The shocks accompanied by noise, sulphureous 

 vapours, and a hot wind. At St. Gall, on the 19th, there had been 

 a stinking south wind, accompanied with dust. After the shock, a 

 violent rain, s. w. wind, and hot air. The barometer at Zurich on 

 the 19th was 26'5£ in., and on the 20th at 26* 3. Feb. 26. A 

 trembling at Eglisau. Oct. 18. A shock at Neufchatel, accom- 

 panied by a violent tempest. The springs were troubled. 



1721. July 3. The whole canton of Berne was violently shaken. At 



Porentrui there was a great noise, and the shock was followed by a 

 powerful odour. In Alsace, Lucerne, and Zurich, it was also sens- 

 ibly and seriously felt. A piercing cold was felt immediately after, 

 but it did not last long. Some days after the earthquake, there 

 were great storms, which did much damage in Italy. That year, 

 there appeared different phenomena in Switzerland and elsewhere ; 

 they were observed at Berne four following days in January. It 

 may be remarked, that there were sensible earthquakes in Hungary 

 on April 4,; in Persia, 9th, when Tauris was destroyed with many 

 inhabitants. 

 1723. April 18. Glisau shaken, followed, in 1724, by tremendous floods 

 there. The rain which fell in 1723, at Eglisau, was 31' 1 £ in. {Acta 

 Berolinensia, 1727, p. 108.) 



1728. August 13. (4, 5 p.m.) Great earthquake at Berne, Zurich, Basle, 



Eglisau, Strasbourg, and in Rhenish Germany; the shocks con- 

 tinued till past midnight. At Berne and Geneva there was a ter- 

 rible tempest, contemporaneously, the preceding day. The Rhine 

 was, after the shocks, greatly swollen. 



1729. January 13. (10, 11 p.m.) At Lausanne several shocks, with a 



smell of sulphur. At Berne, and especially on the Lakes of Thun 

 and Brientz, they were also felt, and great mischief done. The 

 shocks at Froutigue were periodical in their occurrence, 10 p. m. 

 and 7 a. m. The night was very cold, but fine. A gentle wind 

 blew from the south, which increased and ceased by turns; and 



