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Barthquakes in Sicily. “a3 
which till this time, and during vai of fectanindet 
remained perfectly calm, r] 
They accompanied fhe’ eruption. 
With the extinction of the conflagration in. eer all. the 
Soe aeerod ceased, and the earth was no longer agitated. 
ut in 1822 Htna showed that the fermentation within its 
ces was again at work. On the Sthof April, bine 2 
tend continued explosions were heard, which were followed 
by great clouds of smoke violently driven from the crater by 
the impetuous current of elastic vapours. A shower of sul- 
phurous ashes fell all around. On the 6tha violent shock 
convulsed all the towns between AStna and Madonia, Ca- 
pizzi, Cesara, Spero) Troina, Gangi, Gagliano ; hia in the 
midst of these, Nicosia seemed the centre of impulse j in all 
the shocks which followed throughout the month. | Its soil 
appeared on the being torn w by force, ma 
buildings | _— eae and its fobabiisats fled ir Argo 
sternation to find an asylum in the country. ‘The im mmense 
clouds of ve and carthy ashes which were spectod fe 
June to October; which covered the more lofty part of the 
mountain with a gray stratum; which filled the atmosphere, 
and gave out through the whole region a strong odour of sul- 
phur, clearly prove that all these iy a s were dasate 
by forces collected in the recesses of Aiina.* 
Prom June to October, Sade given in t a ui of a 
pour, from lick fora , pieces of 5 2 
which fr ng ine, water, were ejected t hat st ‘there 
albert eT ee brine which fell aes te 
og ome been much og Ls 
frig Som sca ek aes hs prs in he omar ph vances of tna, 
earth opened at a grea nce from the crater, and that a rome we 
tance which is not Fae was ne kaon out. 4s this important error, should 
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