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the eruption of October of the same year, the environs of Aleppo, in 
Syria, had been convulsed during the whole of August; the most 
violent shocks having taken place the 13th of the same month ; and 
on the 14th of August an earthquake was experienced at Laybach 
in Carniola; On the 19th of February, 1825, the town of St. 
Maure, in the Ionian Islands, was almost destroyed by an earth- 
quake, felt also at Corfu and Prevesa. During the night of the 
20th and 21st of February, 1825, there were several shocks at San 
Veit in Carinthia; and on the 21st of February, and for five days 
after, dreadful earthquakes were felt at Alger and its environs. The 
25th of February, 1828, Vesuvius, which had been very quiet from 
1822, commenced a new eruption. There were earthquakes at 
Trieste during the night of the 13th and 14th January, 1828, at the 
Island of Ischia on the 2nd of February, and all over Belgium the 
23rd of the same month. Lastly, M. Necker deems it not impro- 
bable, that the earthquakes felt in Hungary, Transylvania, Gallicia, 
Wallachia, and the south of Russia, at the commencement of 1838, 
were the precursors of the eruptions of Vesuvius and Htna during 
the summer of the same year. 
