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rid of the fears in which this frightful accident had caft us^ 
being in our beds, and not able by reafon of the furprize in 
fo httle a fpace to have paft through a Gallery down a pair 
of Stairs into the Court, if we had attempted it. The Turks 
made direful reflexions on it, as if fome calamity would in- 
evitably fall upon the Empire, quickly forgettimg the «^reat 
triumphings and rejoycings which they expreft but a^few 
days before for the Surrendry of Cmdia. in the year 166% 
in Aumfi^ the Earth (hook more or lefs for forty-feven days 
together in the lefler Apa at Anguri ( Ancjra and for fifteen 
at Bacbajar^ as we heard from a Scotch Merchant, who Jiv'd 
there : and particularly, that at this latter place on the fe- 
cond of Auguftr^ between three and four of the Clock in the 
afternoon it lafted for a quarter of an hour s feveral houfes 
were overthrown, and fome hundreds of Chimneys fell ( it 
being a very populous Town ) and yet there were but feveu 
kill'd. The trembhng being io violent, both Turks and Chri^ 
fttans forfook their Houfes, and betook themfeJves to the 
Fields, Vineyards, and Gardens, where they made their abode 
for feveral days 
Their punifhments are very fevere, this being judo-'d the 
moft efFed:ual way to prevent all pubhck diforders and mif- 
chiefs. They ufe no great formahty in their proceiTes : if 
the Criminal be taken in the Fadt, and the witnefles ready 
and prefent to atteft it, and fometimes if there be but pro- 
bable circumftances, without full convidlion, condemn him ; 
and foon after fentence, fometimes an hour or lefs, hurry 
him away to execution. For an ordinary crime, hanging is 
the ufual death : but for Robbery and Murder, committed 
upon the high way by fuch as rob in Parties and alarm whole 
Provinces, or for Sacriledge, or for any hainous Crime a- 
gainft the Government, either Gaunching or Excoriation, 
or cutting off the Legs and Arms, and leaving the Trunk 
of the Body in the high way, or Empahng, that is, thruft- 
ing an Iron (take through the Body out under the Neck or 
at the Mouth ; in which extreme torment the miferable 
wretch may live two or three days, if the Guts or the Heart 
happen not to be wounded by the pointed fpikein its paf- 
fage. This puniihment feenis to have been in ufe among 
the Romans^ Epiil. 14. Ccgita hoc loco carctrem^ & cnices^^" 
cculeos^ <^ tmciim^ adati itmper medium homme?f^^ qui per - os emtro-ai\ 
fitj>hem: and fo in his. Book Cmjoli^tione ad Marclam caj>.%.o. 
