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During the T eloponnefian War among the Greeks, 
the Hie of Delos was afflidted, and the mod beau- 
tiful Temple of Apollo thrown down. 
Soon alter, the City of Lacedasmon was totally 
deftroy'd. 
A. D. 75?. three Cities in Cyprus were over- 
thrown. 
A.D. 182. the City of Smyrna was ruin’d. 
Conjiantinople has often Buffer'd ; particularly in 
iyo9. 13000 People overwhelm'd. 
A. D. 14 y6. in the City of Naples 40000 Peo- 
ple were deftroy'd. 
In 1 53 1. at Lisbon , 1400 Houfes were thrown 
down, and near as many fhatter’d. 
In the Time of Valens the Emperor, a terrible 
Earthquake happen’d in Crete , whereby 100 Cities 
were deftroy'd. 
But Inftances enough, to (hew what I aim'd at, 
that maritime Places are moft fubjeefc : Which is no 
contemptible Argument in Favour of Electricity j 
when both the Solid of the Earth, and the Quan- 
tity of the Water, concur to make the Shock ex- 
actly, as in common electrical Experiments. 
The Gardener in the Temple Garden obferv'd the 
Sound to roll from the Water-fide toward Temple- 
Bar, before the ceafing of the Nodding of the Houfes > 
juft as the electrical Snap precedes the Shock. Others, 
that write upon Earthquakes, commonly obferve, 
that the Noife precedes the Shock. But it is obvious 
ft muft be quire the contrary, did the ConculTlon 
depend on a fubterranecus Eruption. 
We may well enough expefr, that burfting Va- 
pours, and fubterraneous Explofions, fhould difperfe 
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