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2 of its sides thrown down from top to bottom. It is said several of the Jani- 

 saries, who were on guard there, are killed. The 3 other of the 4 are much 

 shattered, and part of the walls fallen down. All the turrets, on the city wall, 

 from the 7 towers to the Adrianople-gate, are much shattered, though none 

 fallen ; all the cupolas of the portico of Sultan Mahomet the lid's mosque are 

 thrown down ; the Sickergee Han, a strong stone building near the above mosque, 

 is quite destroyed: some part of the wall of the Cara Han is thrown down; one 

 bagnio is quite fallen, and many people said to be destroyed in it. The Cautir- 

 ligee Han is quite down; and the Vizir Han much shattered; 7 minarets (co- 

 lumns from whence the people are called to prayers) of small mosques are thrown 

 down; the mosque called Little Santa Sophia is much damaged, and the prison 

 of Galata is quite down, and all the prisoners buried in its ruins. There has 

 been much damage done at Balat, a large suburb, Scutari, and on the canal; 

 and there are bad accounts from Nicomedia, but none well avouched. There 

 have been several small shocks felt since, but none have done any harm. Some 

 say there were 2000 people destroyed by this calamity, in the town and suburbs; 

 some QOO ; and others reduce them to about 6o, who, by what I have seen, are 

 nearer the truth. 



The shock at Smyrna, in the year 1739, which I also felt, was much stronger. 



On the 6th, about 9 at night, there appeared a cloud due west, when it began 

 to lighten and thunder, and the thunder continued, without any interval, till 

 half an hour past 10, moving gradually to north-east, where it ceased, and the 

 night was very serene and calm after it. About 10, when the thunder was north 

 of us, it rained for a quarter of an hour very heavily, then became clear, and 

 all the stars appeared. Such a peal of thunder I never heard in any country; 

 for I can aver, that it did not stop a minute in an hour and a halfs time. 



Another letter, dated Oct. 1, says, that a Tartar was arrived express from 

 Armenia, in 10 days, with advice, that the city of Sivas, one of the Sebastias 

 of the ancients, was quite destroyed by an earthquake, on the same night, ih 

 which that was felt at Constantinople; and that a lake of fresh water is risen 

 where the town sunk. The earthquake was felt at Angora and Smyrna, but 

 there was no notice that they had felt any thing of it at Aleppo, though there 

 were letters from it about that time. 



CII. Extract of a Letter from Camillo Paderni, Keeper of the Herculaneum 

 Museum, to Thomas Hollis, Esq. relating to the late Discoveries at Hercula- 

 neum. Dated Naples, Oct. 18, 1754. p. 821. 



The first thing here discovered was a garden, in which were found several 

 marble statues of excellent Greek artists. This route led towards a palace, 

 which lay near the garden. But before arriving at the palace, they came to a 



