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berry trees, and corn growing as well upon them as 

 upon the ground from which they were feparated. 

 Amidft thefe fcenes of devaftation, the cfcapes of 

 forne of the unhappy fufFerers is extremely wonderful. 

 Some of the inhabitants of houfes which were thrown 

 to a con-fiderable diftance, were dug out from their 

 ruins unhurt. But thefe inftances were few, and 

 thofe who were fo fortunate as to preferve their lives 

 in fuch foliations, were content to purchafe exiftence 

 at the expence of broken limbs and the moft dreadful 

 contusions. 



During this calamitous fcene, it is impoffible to 

 conceive the horrors and wretchednefs of the unhappy 

 inhabitants. The jaws of death were opened to fwal- 

 low them upj ruin had feized all their pofTeilions, and 

 thofc dear connections to which they might have 

 looked for confolation in their forrows, were for ever 

 buried in the mercilefs abyfs. All was ruin and defo- 

 lation. Every countenance indicated the extremity of 

 affliction and defpair ; and the whole country formed a 

 wide fcene of undefcribable horror. 



One of the moft remarkable towns which was de- 

 ftroyed was Cafal Nuova, where the Princefs Gerace 

 Grimaldi, with more than four thoufand of her fub- 

 jefts, periflied in the fame inftant. An inhabitant 

 happening to be on the fummit of a neighbouring hill 

 at the moment of the fhock, and looking earneftiy 

 back to the refidence of his family, could fee no other 

 remains of it than a white cloud which proceeded from 

 the ruins of the houfes. At Bagnara, about three 

 thoufand perfons were killed, and not fewer at Radicina 

 and Palma. At Terra Nuova four thoufand four 

 hundred periflied, and rather more at Semniari. The 

 inhabitants of Scilla efcaped from their houfes on the 

 celebrated rock of that name, and with their prince, 



descended 



