200 Sir william i-iamilton’s Account of 
to prove that animals can remain long alive without food. Two 
mules belonging to the Duke of Belvifo, remained under a 
heap of ruins, one of them twenty-two, and the other twenty- 
three days : they would not eat for fome days, but drank water 
plentifully, and are now quite recovered. There are number- 
lets in (lances of dogs remaining many days in the fame litua- 
tion ; and a hen, belonging to the Britifh vice-conful at Mef- 
fma, that had been clofely (hut up under the ruins of his houfe, 
was taken out the twenty- fecond day, and is now recovered ; 
it did not eat for fome days, but drank freely ; it was emaciated, 
and lhewed little figns of life at firfh From thefe indances, 
from thole related before, of the girls at Oppido, and the 
hogs at Soriano, and from feveral others of the fame kind, 
that have been related to me, but which being lefs remarkable 
I omit, one may conclude, that long fading is always attended 
with great third, and total lols of appetite. From every in- 
quiry I found, that the great diock of the 5th of February 
was from the bottom upwards, and not like the fublequent 
ones, which in general have been horizontal and vorticofe. A 
circumdance worth remarking (and which was the fame on 
the whole coad of the part of Calabria that had been mod 
affedled by the earthquakes) is, that a fmall dfh called Cicirelli, 
refembling what we call in England white-bait, but of a greater 
fize, and which ulually lye at the bottom of the fea, buried in 
the fand, have been ever fince the commencement of the earth- 
quakes, and continue dill to be, taken near the furface, and in 
fuch abundance, as to be the common food of the poored fort 
of people ; whereas, before the earthquakes, this fi fh was 
rare, and reckoned amongd the greated delicacies. All fifli, in 
general, have been taken in greater abundance, and with much 
greater facility, in thole parts fince they have been affiidted by 
earthquakes 
