vi Count ippolito’s Account of the 
it had, became fo pure as to be drunk extremely well. In 
Maida itfelf many fountains were dried up by the earthquake of 
the twenty-eighth. This likewife happened at other places ; 
but many alfo broke out in feveral fpots where there had been 
none before, as did alfo feveral mineral fprings, of which before 
there was not a veftige. This happened at Cropani, a country 
of the Marchefato. Commonly, however, the fountains be- 
came more fwelled and more copious, and emitted a larger 
volume of water than ufuajh 
The waters of foine fountains were alfo obferved to be trou- 
bled, and to affume a whitilh or yellowifh colour, according to 
the countries through which they palled. 
Many elevations of foil likewile took place in confequence 
of the earthquake. The mod notable was that which hap- 
pened i'11 the bed of the river of Borgia, where there was leen 
a new hillock, about ten palms high, about twenty palms at 
the bale, and about two hundred palms long. Finally, in the 
neighbourhood of the river Lameto, andprecifely in the didricfl 
of the country called Amato, which was entirely tom up by 
the earthquake, there is an olive ground, the furface of which 
is turned over in a vorticole direction ; a phenomenon which 
likewife obtained in many other parts of the country. 
Such are the mod notable phenomena of the earthquake of 
the twenty-eighth of March in thefe countries which have 
hitherto reached my notice. I think myf If, however, obliged 
to notice to your excellency, that this extraordinary catadrophe 
of our afflicted province was preceded by great and extraordi- 
nary frods in the winter of 1782 ; by an extraordinary drought 
and infufferable heats in the fpring of the fame year ; and by 
great, copious, and continued rains, which began in autumn, and 
continued to the end of January. Thefe rains were accom- 
panied by no thunder or lightning, nor were any winds hardly 
ever heard in thefe cities where they are ufed to blow very 
frefh during all this time ; but at the beginning of the earth- 
quake they all feemed to break loofe again together, accompa- 
nied with hail and rain. For a long time before the earth 
fhook, the fea appeared cojidderably agitated, fo as to frighten 
