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quake began, which was fenfible even to the Horfes 
they rode upon, that were affrighted thereat, and the 
Trees were all lhaken. Upon this the amazed Travel- 
lers looking for the Light rhey faw juft before, found 
it quite vanifht. We perceived, turning towards the 
Sea, that the Waves which before the Ihake only beat 
gently upon the Shear, began now to make a dreadful 
noife. The next day, which was the loth. the Night 
and Day following, the Air was overfliadowed with 
Darknefs, and tinged with a deep yellow, and the ob- 
fcured Sun ftruck our Minds with the Melancholy Pre- 
fage of the approaching Earthquake: Which was the 
Second, and happened on the nth. of the fame Jj/zw- 
ary about the xi/?. hour, and lafted about Four Mi- 
nutes. It was much like the fecond fort, which Arifto" 
tie and Pliny call a Pulfe or ftroke, from its refembJance 
to the beating of an Artery. And by Tofftdonliu in Se- 
fieca/is reprefented by the NameofVibrations,it being a 
Perpendicular lifting up of the Earth, as Pontanm de- 
fcribes it, 
Dulio nunc verier e fuhter 
Quajfari aut Jurfum fuhlato pondere ferri. 
So horrid and amazing a ftiake was at once over all 5/- 
cily^ of which it left, if not deftroyed, yet at leaft 
every part miferably (haken. Its im pulfe was fo vehe- 
ment and powerful, that not only many Cities and Coun- 
tries of the Kingdom of Naples, but the Ifland of Mal- 
ta participated alfo of its inxy. It was in this Country' 
impolTible to keep upon our Legs, or in one place on 
the dancing Earth ; nay, thofe that lay along on the 
Ground, were tofled from fide to fide, as if on a rolling 
Billow. 
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