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IX. An Account of a Book^ intituled, Dominici 
Bottom, de immani Trinacriae Terr# Motu 
Idea Hiftorico-Phyfica, in qua non folum 
Telluris concuffiones tranfa&ae recenfentur, 
fed noviffimx Anni 17 17. Meffana: 1 7 t 
8 °. ©7 J. G.Scheuchzer, M. T>. % S . 5 . Coll. 
M L. Lie. 
T HIS Treatife contains an accurate hiftorical Ac- 
count of the feveral violent Earth-quakes, which 
happen’d in the Kingdom of Sicily, in the Years 1693, 
1694, and 1717. inter fpers’d with fome philofophical 
Digreflions concerning the Caufes and Effeds of Earth- 
quakes in general. I (hall fomething enlarge upon the 
former, as being the more material, as well as the 
more curious Part of the Book 3 avoiding, however, 
with all poflible Care, a tedious and unnecelfary Repe- 
tition of what hath been already mention’d in ano- 
ther Account of thofe two dreadful Succuflions, which 
happen’d the 9th and 10th of January, 1693. written 
by Vincent ins Bonajutus , a Sicilian Nobleman. This 
Account was communicated to the Royal Society by 
the late learned Marcellus Malpighius , and is inferred 
in the Bhiloji Tranfatf . N° 207. p. 2. 
The Summer Seafon, in 1692. was exceedingly hot 
and tempeftuous, with frequent Thunders, Lightnings 
and Rains. About the middle of September fell fuch 
profufe Showers, that all the Rivers and Torrents in- 
created to fuch a Degree, as to overflow their Banks in 
feveral Places, and cover large Pieces of Ground with 
Water. This, join’d to the continual blowing of South- 
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