tile j, And in tub two calabuias. 169 
of several rivers was changed ; and many 
'*'f«cvly appeared in places which had before been 
'f, ’'Urn 
q Araaiitea, situated on tlie coast of the 
ai Lower CalaSjria, prncu eding along the 
['•'Ce jji to Cape Spartevento, in Upper Calabria, and 
c'-S*'!’ 'eastern coast to Cape Alice, a part of 
'ir ’t!],,' on the loifwn Sea, the towns and villages, 
'tearly four hundred, 't'ltether on the coast 
i|, either totally destroyed, or sudered greatly. 
p'ovo, the Princess Gerace, and upwards of four 
\ ''tiinbe inhabitants, lost their lives. At Bagnara, 
tit deatl amounted to ujjwards of three lliou- 
ii'i'l I’alnii experienced a similar loss. 
Jill 'tiortiility occasioned by these 
'Ir^ tbe^’ ^'oily and the two Calabrias, was, agrec- 
i(''!‘iii!l e '^‘^'-lal returns, thirly-iwo thousand three liun- 
William Hamilton thought 
S ton 
'^'liii2 ^'"1 carries his estimate to forty thousand. 
'"cl. 
U'guers. 
^'”t shock of the earthquake, on the 5th of 
bull i'diabitants of Sc)'lla escaped from their 
lifiiK;' roek, and, following the example of 
shelter on ilio sea-shore. By this shock 
liaj ■ laisedmid agitated .-,0 violouily, that mucli 
‘■i» bf,t ii on the, point of the Faro of IMos- 
I i'cled willi still greater violence, for, dur- 
t(j inuuense w.ive, which was I’alsely repre- 
oti ■?"' lioiling hot, and to have sarIJed many 
■'"'les i| I to a great heiglit, fio'.vcd fuiiously 
tl)^ iji^ and swept off in its return two thou- 
tijs '\'od and seveuly-llnve of tlie inhabitants, with 
. , at the,,. 
>al ... 
‘“-'ar Iho shore. 
^ foil since 
wild Were cidier at that time on 
commencement of ilie.se for- 
tln 
eai-.! 
S'til^ amounted to .•imeral hundreds ; and 
On ?r'" 'violent may ho reel. 01, ed iho one which 
1 on n,: niay 
!;?>>■ feV 01 U * 
It alleeud ir.o.st of the 
*'Vj ^iilahri . Calabria, and the ir.ferlor part of 
'^’esn j]"'’ equally treinenijuii witli the iir.-»t. 
* the only ones seii.'-ibly felt in the 
■ VVith relation to the former, iwo cingular 
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