Bartpuakes in scutes aa ee eed 
the weight of one of them broke We crystal, Bat two smi 
clocks in my chamber kept | their motion, (as their vi ‘atic 
were in the direction of the shock. — ‘The x 
sismometer* preserved in the observatory, was ut 
lent motion, and at oe es shock, it seemed as 
tated as if it were boi 
quake retained little of its power; since at Morreale, | 
miles distant, trifling injury only was sustained by the (be (be: 
dictine) Monastery of S. Castrense, the house of the Pee 
Conviventi, and the Seminary dei Cherici. At Parco, s 
miles distant, Mary’s College, the Monastery, the p rish 
Church, and a few peasants’ cottages, were all that sffered 
At Pigna. the battlements of the tower down 
But more of its power was felt in places on the Lea as | 
appears from its effects at Capaci, four miles distant, where 
retta, fourteen miles, where the cathedral, two storehouses, 
and some dwelling-houses, were destro royed. Beyond, its 
power continued to diminish ; and at Castellamare, twenty- 
four miles, the state-house alone had the cleft, which was 
made in 1819, enlarged. 
{n eninthee places east of Palermo, the shock was im- 
mense. At Altavilla, Bictien miles from Palermo, the brid. 
was shaken. At Trabia, twenty-one miles, the castle, and at 
Godiano, the cathedral and some houses, were destroyed,— 
enormous masses from Bisambra, a neighbouring mount, were 
loosened, and fell. At Termini, twenty-four miles, the shocks 
were very violent, exceeding all that had happened within 
the memory of its inhabitants. Those of 1818-19 were very 
strong, but the city received at those times no injury 5 ; now 
ing convent of St. Antonio, Mary’s College, and various pri- 
ate houses, felt its effects. 
The warm waters, as well those of the baths as those from 
the neighbouring wells, which proceed from the same sub- 
terranean source in the mountains along the coast of Termini, 
increased in quantity and warmth, and become turbid; con- 
sequences that always succeed Sor alsioné of the earth, by 
* An instrument, retin gle 7 a purpose.of showing the violence 
of the shock of an earthquake. 
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