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Troina, Randazzo, Nicosia, cities in the mountains, suffered in their build- 

 ings. The first had half of the mother-church destroyed, with the parish 

 church of St. Lucy, and was much damaged in the monasteries. The last had 

 its dome much injured. Castiglione had the castle and many houses thrown 

 down. In Francavilla and Linguagrossa, the greater part of the buildings and 

 some churches. Mascali quite ruined, but not many killed, most of the people 

 being abroad on a procession. 



Aidone received considerable damage; two whole quarters, with many of its 

 inhabitants being destroyed. In the quarter of St. Laurence there is not one 

 house standing, and the churches ruined. In that of St. James, the church of 

 the Annunciation and its oratory thrown down, with several other sacred edifices. 

 In the other part of the city, which stands lower, there were not so many 

 +iouses nor persons lost, yet the church of Pope Leo is quite fiat, and the mag- 

 nificent church of the Dominicans in ruins, with the convent of the Reformat! 

 Osservanti, one of the best in the whole province. 



Abi Aquilea, commonly called Jaci Reale, situated at the foot of Etna, is 

 almost quite destroyed, and its inhabitants buried in the ruins, with many con- 

 vents; amongst the rest, the famous one of the Osservanti Reformati. Aci St. 

 Antonio, Aci St. Filippo, S. Gregorio, Pedara Trecastagni, Bonnacorei, Nico- 

 losi, Motta, Mesterbianco, Fenicia, and several other fruitful villages, situated 

 near Mongibello, are destroyed, with all the habitations of the pleasant hills 

 about Cananea, which are now in the dust. 



Paterno, about 12 miles from Catania, a populous city at the foot of Mongi- 

 bello, felt the dreadful effects of the earthquake, losing most of its buildings, 

 all the convents of friars, and a very fine monastery. In the ruins were buried 

 40 persons. The city of Aderno had the same fate. 



Cantabiano Piemonte, in the valley of Emona, Francofonte, Palagonia in the 

 valley of Nolo, are little less than wholly levelled, and about 300 persons des- 

 troyed; when the Marquis of Francofonte was miraculously saved, by leaping 

 out through the crack in the wall of the falling edifice. 



Catania, one of the most, ancient and famous cities of the whole kingdom, 

 honoured by the courts of iitveral monarchs, and an episcopal see, even from 

 the time of the apostles, giving place to none for the beauty of its sacred 

 edifices; among which, the dome was the most sumptuous and large in all 

 Sicily, adorned with excellent pictures, and richly furnished, besides having a 

 very high and curiously buill steeple. Here were a great many nunneries and 

 monasteries; among the rest, the monastery of the Trinity, and that of St. 

 Benedict, with that prodigy of workmanship the magnificent monastery of 

 St. Nicholas, with its temple, a place famous for several reliques. Next, the 



