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liaferla, Palazzuolo, and Busceni lie in ruins, with many inhabitants de- 

 stroyed. — Spacaforno, a populous place, situated near the sea, which washes 

 the foot of the promontory Pachino, has lost all its buildings : liere they 

 reckoned about 2000 dead. — Giariatana with its fall killed most of the inhabi- 

 tants. The marquis himself, with his wife and three children, escaping on 

 -''riday, were on Sunday buried in the ruins: the marquis and his children were 

 taken out alive to bewail the loss of his lady. — Melitello in the valley of Noto 

 is shaken to pieces, the churches and chief buildings levelled with the ground, 

 and the religious orders all turned out in the open air, or under huts and 

 cabins. — Occhiula escaped not the common calamity. — Mineo, an ancient city, 

 is now no iT;ore ; and the greater part of the citizens and religious. 



Caltagirone, a city conspicuous for its senate and nobility, in this universal 

 calamity suffered the total ruin of its proud edifices : as the principal church 

 with its lofty steeple or spire, the famous college of St. Julian, the temple of 

 St. George, the parish church of St. James, admired for the pictures of Epi- 

 phanius, the chapel only remaining, with the image and reliques of the 

 saint. The temple of the Conventuals thrown down, the famous bridge, that 

 joins the convent to the town, shattered to pieces, and the dormitories not to 

 be occupied ; the famous convent of St. Bonaventure, the fall of whose temple 

 and spire was the destruction of the lower buildings ; the college of tlie Jesuits 

 and the steeple of that noble church are quite ruined. The Carmelites, Domi- 

 nicans, Augustines, Crouched Friars, &c. are all without churches and con- 

 vents. -The monasteries of St. Gregory, St. Chiara, St. Salvator, and St. 

 Stephen, with a conservatory of orphans, are all shaken down. In fine, the 

 senate-house, adorned with most curious statues, and all the other buildings, 

 are either fallen, or threaten a sudden ruin. In these desolations, about 1000 

 people were lost. 



Modica, a populous place, and chief of the seniority of the admiral of Cas- 

 tile, has its buildings and famous castle laid in the dust. Signor Abbot Frede- 

 rick, the procurator general, saved himself in the college of the Jesuits ; the 

 cities of Ragusa, Sicily, and Chiaramonte had the same misfortune. — Comiso 

 suffered much in its buildings, though but few persons killed. The convent is 

 down, but the church stands. — Noto, an ancient city, full of nobility and fine 

 buildings, convents, and monasteries, is ail ruined ; the convents of the Domi- 

 nicans, Conventuals, Reformatio Carmelites, and Capuchins, which, was indeed 

 a wondrous fabric, are all torn to pieces. The church of the Crucifixion, the 

 dome), and all the nunneries are down, with the deaths of many citizens and 

 nobleq. 



To conclude, there is not a corner in all the valley of N' to that is not wholly 



