746 As- Soyuli's work on Earthquakes. [No. 141. 



538. On the 14th of Zu-1-ka'de, which fell on a Tuesday, was a 

 great earthquake over all the world. 



544. At Bagdad about ten shocks were felt, and a mountain fell 

 near Holwan ; the Turkomans suffered greatly. 



549. A great fiery wind blew one evening: every body believed 

 that the last day was come ; this was succeeded by an earthquake ; the 

 water of the Tigris disappeared for a while, but made again its ap- 

 pearance. 



550. An earthquake at Bagdad. 



552. In Syria, the greater part of Aleppo was destroyed ; there 

 suffered also Hamat, Shaizar, Emessa, Hisn al Akrad (the fort of the 

 Kurds,) Laodicea, Antiochia. In Shaizar only one woman and a slave 

 were saved. 



In Kafertab not one individual was saved. In Affania the castle was 

 swallowed up, and many towns of the Franks suffered. The walls of se- 

 veral towns of Syria were destroyed ; the children perished in the 

 schools, and no one came to ask for them. 



551. And the following year several earthquakes took place in Syria. 

 551. In the night of Rabi 2nd, was a great earthquake. It was 



preceded and followed by others. In the night of the 25th, at Aleppo, 

 Hamat, and many other places, there were about forty shocks. It 

 was one of the most tremendous earthquakes. On the 29th of the same 

 month, an earthquake took place towards the end of the day, and 

 continued during the night. 



Theirs* of Ramazan three shocks. 



On the third of the same month three earthquakes ; one at noon, 

 the others at midnight. 



In the middle of Ramazan there was an earthquake at night, and an- 

 other in the morning, and two during the following night, and another 

 shock the subsequent day. In the night of the 23d of Ramazan and 

 in the second of Shawal, new shocks of earthquakes were felt which 

 were more violent than the preceding ones, there were also earthquakes 

 on the 7th, 16th and 17th, and in the night of the 22d. 



552. In the night of 19th of Safr, a great earthquake took place which 

 was followed by another shock ; a third one took place in the night of the 

 20th, and the following day in Syria. In the night of the 25th Jornada 

 1st, four shocks. In the night of the 4th of Jornada 2d, several shocks, 



