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22 EARTHQUAKES AT ALEPPO.

Aleppo, one of the most beautiful citicscities [sic] of Turkish cmpireempire [sic], containing 40,000 houses  200,000 inhabitants, has been visited by an  resembling those which laid waste Lisbon and, in the last century.

The first and most severe shock occurred on 13th of August, 1822, about ten in the evening,  instantly buried thousands of the inhabitants the ruins of their clegantelegant [sic] mansions of stone, some which deserve the name of palaces. Several shocks succeeded, and even on the 16th, shocks  still experienced, some of which were sevcresevere [sic]. thirds of the houses of this populous city are in and along with them an immense quantity of  goods of all kinds from Persia and India  been destroyed.

According to the first accounts of this event, through alarm may have been exagerated, the  of the sufferers amounts to from 25 to  Among thcmthem [sic] is one of the best men in the city,  Imperial Consul-General, the Chevalier Esdras V Piecotto.—Having escaped the danger of being  under the ruins of his own house he hastened  some of his family towards the gate of the city;  as he was passing a Khan, a new shock occurred,  a wall fell down, which buried him and those  him. Tartars who have arrived at from Damascus, report that they saw the whole  of Aleppo encamped in the environs. state that scveralseveral [sic] other towns in the Pachalat Aleppo and Tripoli, particularly Antioch and Ladicea, have been destroyed by this carthquakeearthquake [sic]. captain of a French ship also has reported that rocks, at the time of the earthquake, had risen  the sea in the ncighbourhoodneighbourhood [sic] of Cyprus, which is  most of the same latitude as Aleppo.