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To conclude, there is not a Corner in all the Valley 
of Noto that is not ruined wholly, or for the mcft parr, 
with a dreadful Slaughter of the People. The Southern 
Coafts, as Licati, Terra Nova and Gircutt have iuffered 
Damage in their Buildings. And all the Caftles of the 
Valley of Emone near Mongihello are crack'd and broken, 
or fallen down. 
This is the Tragedy of Skilia. His Excellency Seig- 
nior Vkere has given prudent andneceflary Orders from 
Falermo for the Relief of the afflidted and miferabie Re- 
mains of an amazed and half- dead People. 
VIII. An Extract of a Letter from Mr. Anth. 
Van. Lceuwenhoek, containing Jeveral Ob- 
fervations on the Texture of the Bones of Ani- 
mals compared with that of Wood : On the 
Barh^of Trees : On the little Scales found on 
the Cuticula, &*c. 
I Some years fince writ Mr.Oldenhurgh, That I con- 
ceived the Bone to be conftituted of Globules ; but 
finding my Miftake, I retra&ed that Opinion : For what 
I then took for Globules, was the tops of the Tubes or 
Cilinders w r hereof the Bone is compoted. 
Not (atisfied with my Obfervations thereon, I conti- 
nued my Endeavours to dhccver the true Texture of 
Bones 5 and at length found plainly in theThigh Bone of 
an Ox,*that it confided of four forts or fizes of Tubes, 
whereof fome are fo very fmall and clofe united, as 
cot «afily to be difcerned in a Bone cut a-crofs, though 
with 
