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Vizir Han much fhatter’d : feven minarets (columns 
from whence the people are called to prayers) of 
fmall molques are thrown down : the mofque called 
Little Santa Sophia is much damaged, and the pri- 
fon of Galata is quite down, and all the prifoners 
buried in its ruins. There has been much damage 
done at Balat (a large large fuburb), Scutari, and up- 
on the canal ; and there are bad accounts from Ni- 
comedia, but none well avouched. There have been 
feveral fmall fhocks felt hnce, but none have done 
any harme. 
Some fay there were 2000 people deftroyed by 
this calamity, in the town and fuburbs ; fome 900 ; 
and others reduce them to about lixty, who, by what 
Thave feen, are nearer the truth. 
The Shock at Smyrna, in the year 1739, which I 
alfo felt, was much ftronger. 
On the 6th, about nine at night, there appeared 
a cloud due weft, when it began to lighten and thun- 
der, and the thunder continued, without any interval, 
till half an hour paft ten, moving gradually to north- 
eaft, where it ceafed, and the night was very ferene 
and calm after it. About ten, when the thunder 
was north of us, it rained for a quarter of an hour 
very heavily, then became clear, and all the ftars 
appeared. Such a peal of thunder I never heard in 
any country ; for I can aver, that it did not ftop a 
minute in an hour and an half's time. 
Another letter, dated October 1, fays, that a Tar- 
tar was arrived exprefs from Armenia, in twenty days, 
with advice, that the city of Sivas, one of the Sc- 
baftia’s of the antients, was quite deftroyed by an 
earthquake, on the fame night, in which that was felt 
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