EAKTHaUAKE IN CALABRIA. 
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of was a third time overwhelmed^ with a 
Tile thousand souls. 
I *'Vq J^“‘‘'^quake which happened at Rhodes, upwards 
years before the Christian era, threw down 
of Colossus, together with the arsenal, and a great 
l» y ® of the city. In the year 1182, the greater 
cities of Svria. and of the kino-rlnm of .Tm'ms;3- 
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■i Syria, and of the kingdom of Jerusa- 
■ Italia by a similar catastrophe ; and in 1 5g4, 
H ''ch Writers describe an earthquake at Puteoli, 
* ^'‘ftiier retire two hundred yards from 
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earthquake which happened in Calabria ;n 
bf oti 1 •®®'^’^hed by Fatlier Kircher, who was at that 
Way to Sicily, to visit Mount Etna. Inap- 
h Charybdis, it appeared to whirl 
“ ‘ ''a manner as to form a vast hollow, verging' 
KAnTHQtTAK* IN CALABRIA. 
Such 
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>0 pji V' centre. On looking towards Etna, it was 
C’ "'''tch volumes of smoke, of a mountainous 
O bis ...®^^’^'rely covered the whole island, and obscured 
*tr.!''^^'>l shores. This, together with the 
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lj||''!5ly pp,."’®’ sulphureous stench, which was 
filled him with apprehensions that a 
calamity was impending. The sea was 
" bubbles, and had altogether a very 
The bather’s surprise was still in- 
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^^^htrp y®’ '^pr a cloud, which might be supposed to put 
diat'* nrotion. He therefore warned his com- 
was approaching, and landed 
\ s diligence at Tropaea, in Calabria. 
stun''^®®^y reached the Jesuits’ College, when his 
*'Urnf^ ^ horrid sound, resembling that of 
^^ic| chariots driven fiercely forward, the 
ston®’, und the thongs cracking. The tract on 
OV ♦! j. liv^ A a oLupiinu vroa £UiiJ Jii” 
of aif '® serenity of the weather, there not being a 
stood'. 
^ tt bal^ *®®‘tied to vibrate, as if he had been in the 
rthtvv. Sooii k''®® which still continued to waver. The 
® oi) u ccoming more violent, he was thrown 
Stound. The universal ruin around him 
was thrown 
„ lund. The universal ruin 
his amazement ; the crash of fidling houses 
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