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city in Afia Minor, towards the* confines of Diar- 
beekir, or Mefopotamia, where it has done fonie 
damage: thence it came on weft, and left great 
ruins in fome fmall towns and villages ; pafled to 
Nicomedia, and fo to Conftantinople. We had no 
account of its extending to Adrianople; it was merely 
felt at Smyrna ; other fhakes were felt that night at 
twelve of the clock. 
And on the 3d, at 10 and 12 a. m. wind atE. and 
S. E. Ther. 46. a. m. 44. p. m. Mercurial 75. a. m. 
and p. m. 
On the 4th, two more, one at 2 and at 1 1. 1 y'. 
p, m. wind N. and N. E. fre!h. Ther. 42. a m. 
44. p. m. Merc. 78. a. m. 77. p. m. Bar. 1. mark’d 
dark weather, wind N. 
The yth, one at the break of day,’ and another at 
9. 40'. a. m. wind E. N. E. to N. frefti clouds. Ther. 
44. a. m. 45. p. m. Mer. 77. 
On the 6th, two fhakes at four in the morninsr. 
Little wind, almoft calm. Ther. 44. Mer. 77. a. m. 
76. p. m. At between 8 and 9 of the clock this 
night we had a fingular phaenomenon j a topical ob- 
long cloud formed itfelf due weft in the very point 
where the fun had fet, of a black denfe conliftency, 
emitting flames, rays, and fiery corrufcations, direct 
and tranfverfal, fometimes ftellate, like ftars, fome- 
times like laminae or blades, intermixed with feem- 
ing blue or fulphureous fteams : precifely at 9 there 
iflTued from it a hollow rumbling found : the cloud 
fuddenly broke forth, as it were, from a fix’d point, 
and by an equal flow motion traverfed the whole 
northern hemifphere, which was before, and re- 
mained after^, extremely bright and clear j the noife 
continuing. 
