242 EARTHQUAKES. [Lesson xxxV. 



all silence, and a gloomy dread of impending 

 terrors. 



" Leaving this seat of desolation, we prosecuted 

 our voyage along the coast ; and the next day 

 came to Rochetta, where we landed, although the 

 earth still continued in violent agitations. But 

 ^ve had scarcely arrived at our inn, when we were 

 once more obliged to return to the boat; and, in 

 about half an hour, we saw the greater part of the 

 town, and the inn at which we had set up, dashed 

 to the ground, and burying the inhabitants be- 

 neath the ruins." 



" In this manner, proceeding onward in our 

 little ves"sel, finding no safety at land, and yet, 

 from the smallness of our boat, having but a very 

 dangerous continuance at sea, we at length landed 

 at Lopizium, a castle midway between Tropaea and 

 Euphaemia, the city to which, as I said before, we 

 were bound. Here, \\herever I turned my eyes, 

 nothing but scenes of ruin and horror appeared 

 towns and castles levelled to the ground ; Strom- 

 balo, though at sixty miles distance belching forth 

 flames in an unusual manner, and with a noise 

 which I could distinctly hear. But my attention 

 was quickly turned from moreremote,to contiguous 

 danger. The rumbling sound of an approaching 

 earthquake, which we by this time were grown ac- 

 quainted with, alarmed us for the consequence: it 

 every moment seemed to grow louder, and to ap- 

 proach nearer. The place on which we stood now 

 ,l>egan to shake most dreadfully, so that, being un- 

 able 



