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 Gerace Grimaldi, with more than four thousand of her subjects, perished in the same instant. An inhabitant happening to be on the summit of a neighbouring hill at the moment of the shock, and earnestly back to the residence of his family, could see no other remains of it than a white  which proceeded from the ruins of the houses. At Bagnara, about three thousand persons killed, and not fewer at Radicina and Palma. At Terra Nuova four thousand four hundred perished, and rather more at Semniari. The inhabitants of Scilla escaped from their houses on the rock of that name, and with their prince,  to a little harbour at the foot of the hill,, in the course of the night, a stupenduous , which is said to have been driven three  over land, on its return swept away the unfortunate prince, with two thousand four hundred  seventy-three of his subjects. It is computed not less than forty thousand persons perished in this earthquake. Greg. Econ. of Nature, vol. 2nd. page 375 to 378 incl.

EARTHQAKES IN SCOTLAND.

LTHO' this kingdom is happily free from the dreadful calamities experienced in many parts of the world, from these terrible  of nature, yet occasional shocks of  have been felt in Scotland, within these 13. William Creech, Esq. in his third letter Sir John Sinclair, annexed to the Statistical  of Edinburgh, (Vol. VI. p. 624) among  physical phenomena, enumerates the following: