i jo Sir william Hamilton’s Account of 
greateft mortality was there ; that in proportion as the towns 
and villages were at a greater diftance from this center, the da- 
mage they received was lefs coniiderable ; but that even thofe 
more diftant towns had been greatly damaged by the l'ubfe- 
quetit fhocks of the earthquake, and efpccially by thofe of the 
7th, the 26th, and 28th of February, and that of the 1 H: of 
March ; that from the firft (hock, the 5th of February, the 
earth continued to be in a continual tremor, more or lefs ; and 
that the (hocks were more fenfibly felt at times in fome parts 
of the affii&ed provinces than in others ; that the motion of 
the earth had been various, and, according to the Italian deno- 
mination, vorticojb , orizonUiie , and ojcillatorio , either whirling 
like a vortex horizontal, or by pulfations, or beatings from the 
bottom upwards ; that this variety of motion had increafed the 
apprehensions of the unfortunate inhabitants of thofe parts, 
who expedted every moment that the earth would open under 
tbeir feet, and fwallow them up ; that the rains had been 
continual and violent, often accompanied with lightning and 
irregular and furious gufts of wind ; that from all thefe caufes 
the face of the earth of that part of Calabria (comprehended 
as abovementioned between the 38th and 39th degrees) was 
entirely altered, particularly on the weft ward fide of the 
mountains above named ; that many openings and cracks had 
been made in thofe parts ; that fome hills had been lowered, 
and others quite levelled ; that in the plains, deep chafms had 
been made, by which many roads were rendered impaflable ; 
that huge mountains had been fplit afunder, and parts of them- 
driven to a confiderable diftance ; that deep vallies had been 
filled up by the mountains (which formed thofe vallies) having 
been detached by the violence of the earthquakes, and joined 
together ; that the courfe of fome rivers had been altered ; 
2 that 
