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 better. However, this made me ſo cautious for the, that I avoided paſſing near certain places, the ſtench was ſo exceſſive that people began  dread an infection: a gentleman told me, that  into the town a few days after the earthquake, he ſaw ſeveral bodies lying in the ſtreets,  horribly mangled, as he ſuppoſed, by the , others half burnt, ſome quite roaſted; and  in certain places, particularly near the doors  churches, they lay in vaſt heaps piled one upon .'

''Extracted from a Volume of Letters, publiſhed a few ago by the Reverend Mr. Davy--See Gregory's  of Nature vol 2nd. page 396, to 375 incluſive, ſecond edition.''

The year 1783 was fatally marked by the deſolation of ſome of the moſt fertile, moſt beautiful, and celebrated provinces of Europe. The two, with a part of Sicily, were doomed to be a of the moſt tremendous, and the moſt fatal  that ever were known, even in thoſe  regions. The firſt ſhock happened about, on the 5th of February, and was ſo violent to involve almoſt the whole of Calabria in ruin. was but the commencement of a ſucceſſion of, which beginning from the city of , on the coaſt of the Tyrrhene ſea, proceded along the weſtern coaſt to Cape Spartivento, up the eaſtern as far as Cape D Alice, during  whole of which ſpace not a town was  undeſtroyed.

During two years repeated ſhocks continued to