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 ⟨looking⟩ earnestly back to the residence of his family, could see no other remains of it than a white ⟨cloud⟩ which proceeded from the ruins of the houses. At Bagnara, about three thousand persons ⟨were⟩ 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 ⟨celebrated⟩ rock of that name, and with their prince, ⟨descended⟩ to a little harbour at the foot of the hill, ⟨that⟩, in the course of the night, a stupenduous ⟨wave⟩, which is said to have been driven three ⟨miles⟩ over land, on its return swept away the unfortunate prince, with two thousand four hundred ⟨and⟩ seventy-three of his subjects. It is computed ⟨that⟩ not less than forty thousand persons perished in this earthquake.
EARTHQAKES IN SCOTLAND.
ALTHO' this kingdom is happily free from the dreadful calamities experienced in many ⟨other⟩ parts of the world, from these terrible ⟨contusions⟩ of nature, yet occasional shocks of ⟨earthquakes⟩ have been felt in Scotland, within these 13 ⟨years⟩. William Creech, Esq. in his third letter ⟨to⟩ Sir John Sinclair, annexed to the Statistical ⟨Account⟩ of Edinburgh, (Vol. VI. p. 624) among ⟨other⟩ physical phenomena, enumerates the following:
