396 Eaiihquah's. 



over, namely, when ihc instrument had attained tlie height of 

 80° Reaumur. 



The results of M. Greening's experiments, which wei"e per- 

 formed many times, and which of course depend on the diffe- 

 rent tem}ieratures of the vapours of alcohol and water, were 

 as follow : 



1. A person may, by the state of the thermometer, imme- 

 diately ascertain the strength of the liquor in the vessel. 



2. There is no necessity of using the alkohometer in distil- 

 lation, as the thermometer indicates the strength of the liquor 

 with equal accuracy. 



3. Without drawing off" any spirit, what quantity there is of 

 any particidar strength may be immediately known. 



4. Every possible fraud, diu'ing the operation, may be pre- 

 vented, as the apparatus can either be locked up or brought 

 into an adjoining apartment, for the person who attends the 

 work does not require the thermometer to direct him. 



EARTHQUAKE. 



Latakia, (in Syria,) Aug. £8. 

 The city of Latakia and its environs have suffered severely 

 by a dreadful earthquake in the night of the 1 3th of this month. 

 A shock had been lelt on the 12th, and it was imagined that 

 all was over, when on the 1 3th, about 20 minutes past nine in 

 the evening, a slight trembling was the harbinger of most 

 violent shocks that immediately followed. They began from 

 noi'th to south, and then took a direction from east to west. 

 The shock continued for forty seconds. 



EAUTHOUAKE AT ALEPPO. 



A letter from Constantinople, dated Sept. 3, gives the following account 

 of a dreadful earthquake at Aleppo : — 



" Aleppo, one of the most beautiful cities of the Ottoman Empire, has 

 been visited by an earthquake, resembling those which laid waste Lisbon 

 and Calabria in the last century. The first and most severe shock occurred 

 on the i;-?th of August, about ten in the evening, and instantly buried thou- 

 sands of the inhabitants under the ruins of their elegant mansions of stone, 

 some of which desci-ve the name of palaces. Several other shocks suc- 

 ceeded, and even on the Itith shocks were still experienced, someof whi</h 

 were severe. Two-thirds of the houses of this populous city are in ruins, 

 and along with them an i/nmense quantity of valuable goods of all kinds 

 from Persia and India have been destroyed. 



" According to the first accounts of this event, which through alarm may 

 have been exaggerated, the number of the sufferers amounts to from 25 to 

 30,000. Among them is one of the best men in the city, the Imperial con- 

 std-general, the Chevalier Esdras Von Piecotto. Having escaped the dan- 

 ger of being biu'ied- under the ruins of his own house, he hastened with 

 some of his family towards the gate of the city ; but as lie was passing a Khan, 



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