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ons also. Our meeting was all silence, and gloomy 

 dread of impending terrors. 



ff Leaving this seat of desolation, we prosecuted our 

 voyage, and the next day landed at Rochetta, although 

 the earth still continuned in violent agitations. But we 

 were scarce arrived at our inn, when we were obliged to 

 return to the boat, and in about half an hour, we saw the 

 greatest part of the town, and the inn at which we had 

 set up, dashed to the ground, and burying all its inhabi- 

 tants beneath its ruins. Proceeding onward IQ our little 

 vessel, finding no safety at land, and yet having but a 

 very dangerous continuance at sea, we at length landed 

 at Lapizium, a castle midway between Trapaea and Eu- 

 phaemia. Here, wherever I turned my eyes, nothing but 

 scenes of ruin and horror appeared ; towns and castles . 

 levelled to the ground: Strombalo, though at sixty 

 miles distance, belching forth flames in an unusual man- 

 lier. But my attention was quickly turned to nearer 

 danger. The rumbling sound of an earthquake alarmed 

 us. It every moment seemed to grow louder, and to 

 approach more near. The place on which we stood, now 

 began to shake most dreadfully, so that being unable to 

 stand, my companions and I caught hold of the shrubs 

 near us, and supported ourselves in that manner. 



" After some time this shock ceasing, we stood up m 

 order to go to Euphaemia, that lay within sight. In the 

 mean time, I turned my eyes towards the city, but could 

 see only a dark cloud resting upon the place. This the 

 more surprised us, as the weather was so serene. We 

 waited till the cloud was part away, then looking for the 

 city, it was totally sunk. Nothing but a putrid lake was 

 seen where it stood. We looked about for some one 

 that could tell us the sad catastrophe, but could see none. 

 All was become a melancholy solitude ; a scene of hidious 

 desolation. Such was the fate of the city of Thaemia. 

 And as we continued our melancholy cour e < lung the 

 shore, the whole coast for the space of two hundred 

 miles presented nothing but the remains of cities. Pro- 



