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woods, was never heard of after. Such was the 

 fate of the city of Euphsemia: and as we conti- 

 nued our melancholy course along the short, the 

 whole coast, for the space of two hundred miles, 

 presented nothing but the remains of cities; and 

 men scattered, without a habitation, over the 

 fields. Proceeding; thus along, we at length 



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ended our distressful voyage, by arriving at Na- 

 ples, after having escaped a thousand dangers both 

 at sea and land." 



The great and almost universal Earthquake 

 which happened on the 1st of November, 1755, 

 affords a dreadful example of the chief attendants 

 of these striking phaenomena, on which account 

 the young reader shall be presented with the fol- 

 lowing description of it. ' 



At Lisbon its effects were most severe. In 

 1750, there had been a sensible trembling of the 

 earth felt in that city : for four years afterwards, 

 there had been an excessive drought ; insomuch 

 that some springs, formerly very plentiful of 

 water, were dried and totally lost. The predomi- 

 nant winds were north and north-east, accompa- 

 nied with various, though very small, tremors 

 of the earth. The year 1755 proved very wet and 

 rainy; the summer cooler than usual; and for 

 fo r ty days before the earthquake, the weather was 

 clear, but not remarkably so. The last day of 

 October, the Bun was obscured, with a a singular 

 gloominess in the atmosphere. The-lst of Novem- 

 ber, early in the morning, ;i thick fog arose, which 

 was soon dissipated by the heat of the sun; no 



wind 





