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Sleet fell all Day, and the Air was changeable till the- 
27th in the Morning, being by turns, ferene, cloudy, 
fbggy, windy, and damp, with South and Wtfterly 
Winds. The 27th in the Morning, was a pleafant 
fine Sky, and a bright Sun, but excefiive hot : About 
Sixteen or Seveenten Hours, a brisk Wefterly Wind 
arofe, and with this full W ind we fufiained, at Eighteen 
Hours and a half, the violent Shock of the Earth- 
quake; the Waters were obferved to rife as high or 
fomething higher than the 1 9th. At Night, between 
Twenty- four Hours and One Hour in the Night, 
it became cloudy in the Weft, with a ftrong Wind; 
from Midnight to Day-break, fell a fmall Sleet, which 
continued (with fome Interruption now-and-then) 
till the 28th Day; between whiles the Sun fhone. 
The 28th at Night, and the 29th Day, it rained vio- 
lently, accompanied by ftrong bluftering Winds from 
the Weft. The 29th it was all Day cloudy, with the 
fame violent Wind and Rain. The 30th the Sun 
began to appear, but the Clouds were not all di- 
fperfed. At Twenty-one Hours this Day I left Le - 
ghorn , and have not been able to make any further 
Obfervations. 
It is faid here, that the Sea roared with fuch Vio- 
lence and Smartnefs, that its Noife was like the firing 
of large Cannon. 1 have not feen any body who was 
then at Sea, but a Friend of mine informed me, that 
a Fifherman (a Frenchman by Nation) being then in 
his Boat, found it of a fudden raifed up a prodigious 
Height, and then it fell down fo low, that he thought 
it had touched the Bottom of the Sea, and concluded 
himfelf loft : During this uncommon Motion he 
affirms to have heard one of thefe Noifes refembling 
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