lyo EAKTHaUAKES IM SICILT, 
phenomena are recorded : at tJie distance of 
miles from the ruined city of Opptdo, UPP‘-\ .,f 
was a hill, having a sandy and clayey soil, nearly lo .pC* 
dred feet in height, and nearly nine hundred tee 
cumference at its basis. This hill is said to 
carried to the distance of about four miles from 
ance oi auuui. loui - , 
where it stood, into a plain called Campo Hi Bass^" 
the same time, the hill on which the city ot Opp'? . I* 
and which extended about three miles, divided ^ 
parts : being situated between two rivers, its rinns i 
the valley, and stopped their course, forming t' 
lakes, which augmented daily. wnin^/ 
The accounts from Sicily were of a most jp;i '' 
ture. I'he greatest part of the fine city of j / 
destroyed by the shock ot the 5th of February, ‘ ^,iii 
remained was greatly injured by the subsequen 
The quay in the -port had sunk considerably, at ^ f 
some places more than a toot beneath the 
superb building, called the Palazzata, which gave 
a more magnificent appearance dtan any other i / 
. un(\ tu® * .f 
a nioie iun^imik,cuL j)i 
could boast, was entirely thrown down ; \ 
greatly damaged. The citadel suffered little, r 
was de.strovcd. and the tower at the p^' A 
cathedral was'destroyed, and the tower at the 
entrance of the harbour much damaged. The w _ 
entrance ot the liarbour muen ciamageu. . 
had done so much mischief at Scylla, had pass^ptj' , 
point of kind a, the Faro, and swept away 
persons. I'he accounts from Melazzo, Patti, 
[le accounts iiom .yiciai./A,, . , 
Santa Lucia, Castro Reale, and from the wlaim ® |,)' 
were very distressing ; but the damages done tn 
earthquakes not so considerAle as at Messina.^ _ 
erauic as at xvicaauu». V 
Sir'william Hamilton, from the limited 
Ull v» liiinii* ». (^9^^ ^ 
these earthquakes, was persuaded that they iiid’/i' 
some great operation of nature, of a volcanic „ ol. 
some great operation ot nature, o* a.'oa.a u'' 
ascertain this, he began his tour by visiting the p jty 
coasts of the two Calabrias which had suftered (ii), 
- to V 
this severe vlsiratlon. He everywhere 
Ulis 3CVV.IC viaiuiuiJi.1. -- 
towns and houses, the inhabitants of which wc [ji.- , 
towns <um Iivjuayo, Ii,,., ...* 
many of them built on such insalubrious spo , 
epidemy 
had ensued. These unfortunate 
A 
that 
klijf 
every shock they had felt, seemed 
to 
rumbling noise from the westward, beginning ‘‘“•^,.tiv 
the hoiizoatal motion, and ending with tlm 
