Croipy 
the Mountain, about 20, miles beneath the Old Mouth 5 aad 
to. miks {xomC ataxia. At firftic was reported to advance 3. 
miles in 44. hours • bm at our being there ( viz. Afril 5 ) when 
we were come within a fliorc mile of Catania ^ it icarce mov'd 
after the rate of a fui long a day I and after this degree of pro- 
grefs it eontinued for 15. orao, daysafter , pafling under the 
walls of C4?4;;/^ agood way intothe ^ea$ but about the latter 
end of this Month and the beginning of May ( whether it was 
that the ^ea could not receive this matter ta ft enough, or ra- 
ther that the Mouth above did caftfortha larger quantity) ic 
bent all its force againft the Gityj and having wrought itfelf 
up even with the Wals thereof, over ic pafs'd in divers placesf 
but its chief fury fell upon a very flately Convent^ which was 
that of the Benedidim , having large Gardens and other ground 
betwixt them and the Wall 2 Which when it had filled up , it 
fell withal! its force on the Convent- where it met w th ftrong re- 
fiftance, which made it fwell ( as ufually ic di^,where it met with 
any Gbfttudiion > ailmoft as high^as the higher Shops in the Old 
iondoa Exchange, this Convent being built much after 
that fafliion , though confidcrably bigger, ^ome parts of this* 
Wall were driven in, whole and entire^almoft a foot, as appear- 
ed by the rifing of the tyles inthe midft of the floor, 
and bending of the Iron-barrs that went crofs above, And'cis 
certain , had this Tofrenc fallen in fome other part ot the Town, 
it wc uld have made great havock amongft their ordinary Buil- 
dingf, but here its furyceaftd the4. of Maf^ tunning hence 
forward in little channels or ftreims, and that chiefly ujtothe 
Sea. Itliad overwhelmed in c he upland- con try fome 14, Towns ^ 
and villages, whe*-eof fome were ot go d note, contai mgj ; 
or 4 thoufaad Inhibi ants , and flood n\ a very fruitful mi plea- 
fantCi Uiit yj, where the Fire had never m^tde any dev ft^tion 
before: tut now there i' n ;nf> n uch ;^s any fign, where- fuch 
Towns havt flood 5 ^ nly the Church ind Steeple o^ one cf them y 
wh ch fl^>ad alcire upon an f ig S ground,: oc^ ft 1 ppcare. 
As (o the matter, which fhu . ran ^ it '^as nocf i ib» elfe, but 
divers kiads f Mtt h and M -era s , eidred liquid bv the 
fierceiirfs ot the Fi e ia t* € bOA ck r.f he E rta, > yling up^ 
and guflhing fonh, lk% the water doca at the head of f«me great 
