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about four miles off the fea, the water was thrown out altogether 
as fait as that of the fea 5 in the city of Noto a ftrcet, half a 
mile in length, and built of ftone, was fettled into the ground, 
and hung quite on one fide like an inclining wall ; and in another 
ftreet before the Affent del tDurbo was an opening big enough to 
fwallow a man and horfe 5 there were every where great rocks 
loofened and thrown down from the mountains j and in the 
country of Sortino^ a great number periflied in their houies, which 
were beaten down by the rocks in their rolling down the hills : 
At Syracufe and other places near the fea, the water in many 
wells, which at firft were fait, became frefb and fit to drink 5 the 
fountain AretJoufa was lb brackifh for fbme months, that its wa- 
ter could not be ufed, but afterwards it became fweeter, and its 
fpring was encreafed to near the double 5 in the city of lerminf 
all the running waters were dried up, but the hot b^ths were aug- 
mented by a third part of what they were before the earthquake: 
In many plain and level places, very high walls leaped from their 
foundations above two paces, leaving that whole Ipace perfe61:ly 
clear and free from rubbifh, as if they had been taken up and 
carried off: A fountain in the very moment of the earthquake 
ejecied its waters tinged of a blood-red for three hours, and then 
it dried up, leaving many holes in the mud at bottom, thro' 
which real afhes were thrown out, and the next day the waters 
returned of the former quality, without the leaft alteration: The 
Ibuth winds blew very much, which ftill have been impetuous in 
the moil fenfible earthquakes 5 and from the jith of January to 
the 14th of September there were confiderable and llrong Ibuth 
winds, which were preceeded by a noife like a cannon at a great 
diftance, Ibmetimes of a longer, and fometimes of a fliorter con- 
tinuance : it has been oblerved that in lefs folid ground, fuch as 
chalk, fand, or loofe earth, the damage was incomparably 
greater than in rocky places 5 its effects on human bodies have 
been various, fuch as foolifhnels, but not to any great degree, 
madneis, dullneis, Ibttifhnefs, hypochondriac, melancholic and 
choleric dilbrders3 fevers were very common, with continual ter- 
tian, and malignant ones, accompanied with jDeliria and lethar- 
gies 3 the fmall-po!x: made great havock amongft children 3 and in 
ihort no age or condition but had its fhare in ixy univerfal a 
calamity. 
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