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perceived the inclination very fenfibly. It fettled foon 
after, and was fucceeded by feveral horizontal vibra- 
tions: all the pendulums flopp'd; mine precife y at 
ten, fome at a few minutes after or before, accord- 
ing to their greater or lefs regularity. My fervants 
told me, that the horfes rofe from their Jitter with 
violent emotions, and continued fome time uneafy • 
all tlie fowls were on the wing, and cackled ; dor's 
and cats ran about feiz’d with fear. The wells, of 
which I have three, became the one dry, the others 
almott fo The damage was confiderable, butmoflly 
amongfl the old flone or brick buildings, as mofehes^ 
the feven towers, public khans, and old walls. All 
the Jioiifes are built with wood and mud brick dried 
only by the lun, which the people of the country 
pretend to be, by the lefs weight on the foundations 
a greater fecurity againft earthquakes : in fadf, none 
but very old ones, and but few fuffered j thofe well 
repaired came off unhurt, or with fome cracks and 
hIJurcs orily. It was immediately faid, that the per- 
lons killed amounted to fome hundreds; but the truth 
IS, there were not above fixty. The more elevated 
the apartments, the more fenlible the fliock ■ thofe 
who were in the flreets,’ or in the fields, in motion! 
did not feel it. The duration by many was extended 
to minutes ; but, as far as I could judge, it did not 
exceed fome feconds, at moft 30". The Thermo- 
meter at 48. a, m. 47. p m. the Mercury at 74. a. m. 
72. p. m. and the Mercury in the Barometer at 2! 
J olerable good weather. 
We perceived its line of direaion from the eaft 
frem whence we had afterwards an infallible confir- 
mation j for it has been traced from Sivas, a large 
city 
