172 Sir william Hamilton’s Account of 
alone, according to the returns in the fecretary of ftate’s office 
at Naples, is 32,367 ; but I have good reafon to believe that, 
including Grangers, the number of lives loft muft have-been 
conftderably greater, 40,000 at leaft may be allowed, and, l 
believe, without any exaggeration. . 
From the fame office intelligence we likewife heard, that the 
inhabitants of Scilla on the firft ffiock of the earthquake, the 
5th of February, had efcaped from their houfes on the rock, 
and, following the example of their prince, taken ffielter on the 
fea-fhore ; but that in the night-time the fame fhock, which 
had railed and agitated the fea fo violently, and done fo much 
damage on the point of the Faro of Medina, had a<fted with 
ftill greater violence there, for that the wave (which was re- 
prefented to have been boiling hot, and that many people had 
been icalded by its rifmg to a great height). went furioufly three 
miles inland, and fwept off in its return 2473 of the inhabi- • 
tants of Scilla, with the prince at their head, who were at 
that time either on the Scilla Strand, or in boats near the 
ffiore. 
All accounts agreed, that of the number of fhocks which 
have been felt lince the beginning of this formidable earth- 
quake, amounting to fome hundreds, the moft violent, and of 
the longeft duration, were thofe of the 5th of February at 
19! (according to the Italian way of counting the hours) ; of 
the 6th of February, at 7 hours in the night; of the 27th of 
February, at ill in the morning; of the firft of March, at 
8| in the night; and that of the 28th of March, at if in the 
night. It was this laft fhock that affe&ed moft the upper part 
of Calabria Ultra, and the lower part of the Citra, an authen- 
tic defeription of which you will fee hereafter, in a letter which 
I received from the Marquis Ippoiito, an accurate obferver 
