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Contributions t9 Englijh Synonymy. 



[Nov. 



Partkulars of the Damages cavfed hy the Earthquake on Friday, July 26, ilo^, from 

 Reports tu the Secretary 0/ State'' s Office. 



Tqikhs and tillages. 



Ifernia, .... 



Cartel Petiufo, . , 



Contallipj, . , . 



Ponto Mtilrnio, . , 



Trelblone, 



St. Angelo in Giotca, 



Csrpinone, 



Damages, 



I'amUie! perijhed. Total dead. 



Deftroyed 3 39 • • 150S 



Ditto .131.. 44. J 



D tto 14.2 . . 50S 



Ditto 74 , , 227 



Pait tleftroyed 390 . . 1440 



Ditto 43 . . 174 



D't o 193 . . 579 



Baranelia, .... Ditto 180 . . 720 



SafTino K'ltiiely rit-f'royed. . . . Inhabitants 1-jft. 



Baflano B^-come a L.kc, .... 240 . . 672 



St. Angelo di LoinHardl, Part deitioyc.i No particulars. 



Camelli, A Volcano op- nsd. . . . Ditto. 



Other Places, "vith general Jnfarmat'wn. 



liairano, deftioyeii, was ihe ren re of 



the earthquake, which ex'endrd 150 



miles. 1 he following places were all'j 



deft'oyed : Rucca, Mandclfi, Machia Go- 



be borne i but by load, a weight tror? 

 thtn we :ue able to be;ir. 



Tiie following phialLs are both iifuaj 

 ann corieii: ; 



WiMt do vou aflc for th:it load of 



dena, Mir.ib'llo, Vingniitura, ai-d oilier w'lod ? yon have employed plenty ot cattlf 



laecs. The follo'-irg places w;ie todrHwii.' — • 7 he burden was too much 



paiily deftroyed : CarnpolialTt, S.Tverna, tor him j htf has got an injury.'^' Ynu 



are tocary back ihe hampers empty; 



Siipino, Diicimtiio, Sintahuono, , Collr: 

 panchcfe, Caltor Petione. Civita Narva, 

 Bollnc, ani! other villages. Of the diffe- 

 rent pja es \<\ Abnizio and Contado di 

 M^liia tliat have fuffered, no pmiiciilais 

 are as yet given, no ace unt luvingheen 

 received of the number of families or per- 

 fons 'dev.d or miflin?, and as cnany are 

 fuppotcci to bed -ad who are only niiffing, 

 the number is likely 10 be lefs llun com- 

 puted. 



For the Menihly Magazi'ie. 



CONTRlBUriONS to EN(;LlbI4 SYNO- 

 NVMY. — NO. III. 



[Continued jrom No. 133, page 112.] 

 Burden, Load. 



ElURDEN, fa\s the German fjn-nv- 

 ) milt Ehcrhard, is eymnlngicaUy 

 ci^iiiieiSit'd with the verb ' to bear,' a< is 

 * loait' with ' to bnd.' The one mear.s a 

 weight l)"rne, the other a weig'it imp fed j 

 b itii include tlie idea of weght lineil. 



• The poiter fweats under lus burden.' 

 •. — ' The waggon creaks benenth its 

 kad,' 



When vi-e are confidering in 3 fliin its 

 power of beaiirg or litiipg, we lalk of 

 its burden ; when we aie confutering the derived f om the verb ' to bulge,' or ' to 

 ineans ot itowins; and heavLig the cargo, b Ige,' wiijch is itltlf a d'.-rivitive from 

 we talk of its loading. ihe lubttaiuive ' btUy ;' in Anglo Saxon 



Vr. Truiler favs, erroneouHy, that by- biii^. Biige-water is the water contained 

 buidcn «e undtrllanqa weighi poITible to in tiie bthy oi a Ihip. 



Bailey 



you will h.Hve a light load.' 

 Di)dcn writes, 



At every clofe ihe made, th' attending throng 

 Keply'd, and liore the burden of the fong. 



He evidenly confiders tlie word ' burden,' 

 when it m;an.s a bob 01 chorus, as identi- 

 cal w,lh the woid under difcufliori, and 

 therefore defctibcs it as. borne. It ought 

 probably to be written burdm, and de- 

 rives from bourdon, Fr. the drone of a 

 b.tg-pipe, which (erves as acctflbry miilic, 

 like a chon s. — ' The burdon of a long.' 



Breakers, Surges, Bilhvs, Ifa-ves, UitdU' 

 Litious, Fluctuations. 



Thofe huge waves whofe fummits break 

 into f lam at a diltance from the ftioie are 

 called bre k>rs. 



« The breakers in the Bay of Bifcay are 

 formid-ble to mariners.' 



Thule waves which rife higher than 

 oilieis are called furges, from the Latrn 

 \xo\\\ furgtre, to nfe. 



He flies .ilofr, and with impftuous roar 

 Purfucsthe loaniiiig lu;ges toihcfhore. 



Thofe waves which fwell out more than 

 others are called b.Uows. This term is 



