EAKTHftUAKES IN SICILY, 
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be compru-ed to that which was felt in the 
‘H the former city the mortality did not exceed 
tiiti ’ "'^Pdred, of a population of thirty thousand. A 
'^■rcumstance happened there also, to prove that 
? '^®n sustain life for a long time without food. Two 
f '°'’ging to the Duke of Belviso remained under a 
Uiree f the one twenty- two, and the other twenty- 
dr : for some days after they refused their food, 
plentifully, and finally recovered. There were 
stittie histances of dogs remaining many days in the 
toi,j P'hit'tion ; and a hen, belonging to the British Vice- 
111:, s » hclyir.,,. u 1H-. tV»f» mint; nf 
tiis “ttving been closely shut up beneath the ruins of 
'“ken out on the twenty- second day, and 
life. ‘'Ithough. at first it showed but little signs of 
the mules, it did not eat for .some days, but 
ttlajgj From these instances, and from those above 
'*'ell the girls at Oppido, and the hogs at Soriano, as 
several others of the same kind, it may be 
'I'ifst long fasting is always attended with great 
A ® total loss of appetite. 
?trv|,y^titns,ance worth recording, and which was ob- 
’'I'lati ,) '*'?'tghout the whole coast of the part of the Cala- 
'l'i;il(y‘tvinces which had been most affected by the earth- 
tt'as, that a description of small fishes, named 
Nt lar^’y^rnbhng what in England are called white-bait, 
ttrie^yt, and which usually lie at the bottom of the sea, 
litfth,. the sand, were, from the commencement of these 
stirj^ tttid for a considerable time after, taken near 
'"n th,y®’ ^t’d in such abundance a.s to become the com- 
Sa"J< _ 
"vl.' '’f the poorer sort of people ; whereas, before 
tiyy'od 
'I’ey 
were rare, and reckoned among the 
"•"'-ades. Fishes in general having been taken, 
effects of the shocks had reached, in much 
y Willi ^ttndance, and with greater fiicility, than before, 
All- 1 ‘‘^111 
-.la ’ greater 
II ''f liul, '^“"jeetures, either that the bottom of the sea 
'iiat ,1 ve been ’ 
."'lii-i, 1 '^eir 
“ been heated by the volcanic fire beneath it, or 
^ I ^.btitiLial tremor of the earth had driven the fishes 
l?t‘l h'e strong holds, in the same way as an angler, 
M- ®b ^ obliges the ivorms to come out of a 
11^ tvtov '^"‘•‘r-side, by trampling on it with his feet, 
^bti Q never fails of its effect. 
^*rtinandant of the Citadel of Messina assured 
