SHORT CHRONICLE 



OF EVENTS, 



[Dec. 31. 1791.] 



MCaferta, Nov. 15. 

 ELANCHOLY accounts 

 have been received here, of 

 the earthquakes in Calabria 

 Ultra, which have been fre- 

 qaent and violent for fix 

 weeks paft. They do not fecm 

 to extend fo tar as in the year 

 1783, and their grc-ateft force 

 appears to have been at Monte 

 Leone, Mileto, and Soriano, 

 where moft of the wooden bar- 

 racks have been overthrown, 

 and many people v/oundcd, 

 but few lives have been loft. 

 Thefe earthquakes are but 

 (lightly felt at Meflina ; and 

 it has been remarked that fince 

 they began, Mount .ffiltna and 

 Stromboli have been quiet, and 

 fmoked Icfs than ufual. A vil- 

 lage called Cale Nuove, near 

 Fuligno, on the Loretto road, 

 was nearly deltroyed by an 

 earthquake the nth of 0(flo- 

 ber, and the houfes for fix 

 miles round were damaged 

 more or lei's, the people being 

 obliged to live in the fields. 

 Mount Vcfuvius, after having 

 thrown oat a thick fmoke and 



alhes for feveral days, opened a 

 new mouth on the fide next to 

 the mountain of Somma on 

 Thurfday laftj and from thence 

 3. copious lava is running into 

 the valley between the two 

 mountains. 



The overflowing of the Tiber, 

 in confrquenee of ISng and 

 heavy rains, has done conlider- 

 able damage in the lower parts 

 of the city. 



On Sunday the ayth ult. 

 about half paft ten in the even- 

 ing, a very violent (bock of an 

 earthquake was felt at Lifbon ; 

 fortunately it did not continue 

 long, although it was fuffici- 

 ently fevere to ring the bells ia 

 feveral houfes: The candle- 

 iticks in the chapel of the Iri/h 

 copvent were thrown down ; 

 and the g'^neral confternation 

 was fo great, that many inha- 

 bitants quitted their houfes and 

 ran into the ftreets for fafety ; 

 The nobility left the city early 

 the next morniiig. Several vef- 

 fels lying ijn the Tagus wera ' 

 affeifted hy this rtiock, v/hich is 

 the feverelt that city has ex- 

 perienced fince the great earth* 

 quake that happened in 175?. 



