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Fortification, fufficiently populous by reafbn of its con- 
venient Situation for Trade, full of Nobility, and beau- 
tify cl with Churches, Convents, Monafteries and Palaces, 
now mourns in Ruines. It was fenfible of Friday\ but 
all (hook to pieces by the Svndafs Earthquake, with the 
loft of many Thouland Perfons. Moft of the Nobility 
faved themlelves by a timely Flight. Of the Religious 
not many perifh'd." Scarce a Village in the whole Dio- 
cefs is left: Confufion reigns every where and the Mi- 
fery is encreafed by the want of Food, caufed by the 
Granaries and Mills being deftroyed. 
Lajerla, Palazzuolo and Bufceni lie in Ruines, with 
many Inhabitants deftroyed. 
Spacaforno % a populous place, fituated near the Sea, 
which walhes the Foot of the Promontory Pachino, has 
loft all its Buildings : Here they reckon about 2000 
dead. 
Giarratana with its Fall killed moft of the Inhabitants. 
TheMarque(s himfelf with his Wife and Three Children 
elcaping on Friday, were on Sunday buried in the Ru- 
ines ; the Marquefs and his Children were taken out 
alive to bewail the lo(s of his Lady. 
Melitello in the Valley of Noto is ftiaken to pieces, 
the Churches and chief Buildings even with the ground, 
and the Religious Orders all turned out in the open Air, 
or under Huts and Cabines. 
Occhiula efcaped not the common Calamity. 
JMineoy an ancient City, is now no more and the 
greater part of the Citizens and Religious. 
Caltagirone, a City confpicuous for its Senate and No- 
bility, lufFered in this univerfal Calamity the total Ruine 
of its proud Edifices : As the principal Church with its 
very high Steeple or Spire, the Famous Golledge of St Ju- 
lian, the Temple of St. George, the Parifli-Church of 
St. Jawes, admired for the Pictures of Epiphanius, the 
Chappel only remaining,with the Image and Reliques of 
