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In open places the Sea funk down confiderably, and 
in the fame proportion in the Ports and inclofed Bays , 
and the Water bubbled up all along the ftiore. 
The Earth opened in feveral places in very long clefts, 
fome an hands breadth, others half a Palm, others like 
great GuUs. From thofe openings that were in the 
Valleys, fuch a quantity of Water fprung forth as over- 
flowed a great fpace of Ground, which to thofe that 
were near it, had a fenfible Sulphureous fmell, though 
in a low degree, and without that unpieafant ftifling 
produced by the fmoak of Brimftone. 
In the Plain of Catania, an open place, it is reported, 
that from one of thefe Clefts, narrow, but very long, 
and about Four Miles off the Sea, the Water was thrown 
forth altogether as Salt as that of the Sea. 
In the City of Noto is a Street of half a Mile long, 
built of Stone, which at prefcnt is fetled into the Ground, 
and quite hanging on one fide, like a Wall that inclines ; 
and in another Street before the Aflent ^lel Durlo, is an 
Opening big enough to fwallow a Man and Horfe. 
Great Rocks were loofened and thrown down from 
the Mountains every where. And in the Country of 
Sertino^ inhabited by about 5-000 Perfons, a great num- 
ber periflied in the Houfes which were beaten down by 
them in their way, as they rolled down from the Hills. 
This Accident had its EfTed on the Earth it felf, for 
there happened to be a great Ciftern, or Refervatory of 
Water hollowed on the top of a Rock , which was 
loofened and thrown off from the reft of the Rock, and 
flid down to the bed of the River that runs in the bot* 
torn, where the Ciftern remains as it was full of the 
fame Water it had received before the Earthquake. 
A very great many Grotto's made by Art or Nature^ 
are now fallen in. 
In Syracufa and other places near the Sea, the Water 
in many Wells, which at firft were fait, are become 
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