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Juft at the Time of the fecond Shock, the Sea retir’d 
from the Land all along the Coafts, leaving its Bottom 
drv’d up for a confiderable Diftance, and within few 
Minutes return’d again with great Fury, and overflow’d 
the Shores. By this Accident the Maltefi Gallies, 
lying at Anchor in the Harbour of Agofta , were in dan- 
ger of being loft } for the Sea funk down all of a fudden, 
fo that they came to fit almoft upon the Ground, and im- 
mediately after bubbled and fwell’d up again with fo 
great an Emotion, that they run the Hazard of having ■ 
their Cables broke, and being driven away. 
And it feemed that the Earth itfelf was in fome Places 
confiderably lower’d,and the Tops of the Mountains de- 
prefs’d. Of this they had a remarkable Inftance at Bar 
ternione. The Hills, between this City and the Shore, 
hinder’d it from having any View of the Sea, which 
lince the Earthquake difcovers itfelf towards the Eaft 
very plainly. 
In other Places the Earth a&uilly funk down, and 
inftead of it appear’d great Lakes, fome of which were 
large enough to become navigable. By the breaking 
forth of fuch a Lake between Noto and Syracufa , a 
large Piece of Ground was tranfported for about 5 'o 
Paces, where it now (lands as form, as if it had always 
flood there. 
The Loofening and Fall of two great Rocks between 
ferula and Cajfero is already fufficiently deferib’d in 
the abovementioned Account of Signor Bonajuti : Such 
Loofenings and throwing down of great Rocks happen’d 
every where up and down in the Country, to the great 
Terror of the neighbouring People. The lame was alio 
obferv’d, according to Kircher , and feveral other Au- 
thors, in fome Earthquakes in the Kingdom of Naples . 
Two very high Rocks near Ibla, with all the Trees 
growing thereon, were by the Violence of the Fall, 
