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(hocks were felt ; but I myfelf was fenfible of none;, 
till the morning of the 28th, when we had a fhort 
pulfatory (hock. The fame day, at two o’clock, 
we had a pretty fmart (hock, lading about forty fe- 
conds. From this time, I was fenfible of no more,, 
though others either felt or imagined feveral flight 
vibrations every day. 
However violent this earthquake was, or rather, by 
the frightened people of Aleppo, imagined to be, it 
is certain, that, excepting in a very few old walls, 
the city bears no frefh marks of ruin j none of the 
oldeft minorets have fuffered. Its effects at Antioch 
were more formidable ; many houfes have been 
thrown down, and fome few people killed. 
HJE earthquake of the evening of the 25th has- 
proved fatal to Damafcus ; one-third of the city 
was thrown down, and of the people, numbers yet 
unknown perifhed in the ruins. The greater part 
©f the furviving inhabitants fled to the fields, where 
they dill continued, being hourly alarmed by {lighter 
{hocks, which deterred them from re-entering the 
city, or attempting the relief of fuch as might yet be 
faved, by clearing away the rubbifh. Such was the 
purport of a letter I read this day, which was wrote 
from Damafcus three days after the earthquake. 
Other accounts we have at this place, make the lofs 
of the inhabitants amounts to 20,000 j but, in cir- 
cumdances of fuch general horror and confufion,. 
little accuracy can be expedted, and the eadern dif- 
pofition to exaggeration reigns, at prefent, univerfally. 
Tripoly has differed rather more than Aleppo j 
three minorets, and two or three houfes, were thrown 
December 7 h. 
down, 
