C i 1 
A P P E N D I X. 
Tr (inflation of Count Francefco Ippolito’s Letter to Sir William 
Hamilton, Knight of the Bath , F. R. S. ; giving an Account 
of the Earthquake which happened in Calabria, March 28^ 
1 783. See p. 209, 
T HAT part of the kingdom of Naples, formerly poftefted 
by the Brntii, and other Greek colonies, and now called 
Calabria, has been at all times expofed to the terrible convul- 
fions, of which vve are at prefent the victims. The earth- 
quakes in 1638 and 1659, by which the two provinces of Ca- 
labria were almoft utterly deftroyed, are frefh in every one’s 
memory, as well as that of the year 1744, which affiidted us 
for a long time, but without lofs of cities or of men. Reggio, 
and the countries near it, are expofed to earthquakes almoft 
every year, and if we look back to higheft antiquity, we lhall 
find that all Italy, but particularly this country, and more par- 
ticularly ftill the provinces we inhabit, have been fubjedf to 
various cataftrophes in confequence of volcanoes and fubterra- 
neous fires* Indeed, the religious rites themielves of our an- 
ceftors the Brutii, which hiftory teaches us were all of a 
gloomy melancholy caft, atteft the deep imprefiion which the 
fenle of fuch repeated and terrible cataftrophes made upon the 
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