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frefti again, and have not as yet loft their Goodnefs, fo 
that they are ftill fit to drink. 
The Fountain Arethufa for the fpace of fome Months 
was fo brackifb, that the Syracufans could make no ufe 
of it, and now that it is grown fwceter, its Spring is in- 
creafed to near double. 
In the City of Termn't all the Running Waters arc 
dryed up, and amongft the reft a fmall River near to ir, 
with which they watered their Gardens and Orchards. 
It was contrary with the hot Baths, which were augmen- 
ted by a third pare of what they were before the Earth- 
quake. 
Iq many plain and level places very high Walls leaped 
from their Foundations above two Pace^, leaving that 
whole fpace perfcftly clear and free from Rubbifh and 
^Huines, as if they had been taken up and carrycd off! 
And in Syracufe two Side-walls of a fmal! Houfe jump'd 
up from each other, the one upright, and flood upon 
its bottom at a great diftance trom its former place; 
and the other leaving its Companion, flew away fo as 
to make an Angle with the other, to the wonder of the 
beholders of fo extravagant an Accident. 
Not far from the Country of Cajfaro, from the tops 
of two Mountains, between which through a long Val- 
ley ran a River, two very great Rocks were loofened , 
which tumbling down over againft each other, met (b 
exactly, as to clofe up the Valley, and ftop the Current 
of the River, which not finding any fubterraneous of 
fide-pa(Bge, has filled up the Valley to the top of the 
Rocks that were throw^n down, and runs over them , 
forming a Lake three Miles round of a confiderable 
depth. 
In the Territory of Soriini, in a piece of Ground 
half a Mile long, but much narrower, the Ground at 
feveral little Interftices is funk from the level, in fome 
places tv/o, in others three Palms, and ends in a very 
deep Circular Gulf or Swallow. A 
