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⟨As⟩ soon as the Arabs and the Bedouins of the (illegible text)ian desert obtained information of the calamity ⟨which⟩ had befallen Aleppo, they hastened in hordes ⟨to exercise⟩ the trade of plunder in that immense grave. (illegible text)orem Pacha, however, drove them back, and also ⟨executed⟩ several Janissaries, who had committed ⟨degredations⟩ among the dead bodies and ruins.
The great number of unburied bodies, in this ⟨extremely⟩ hot period of the year, has produced ⟨pestilential⟩ effluvia, and obliged the unfortunate ⟨inhabitants⟩ to seek for refuge in some remote district.
Naturalists have remarked that the earthquake at ⟨Aleppo⟩ was preceded and followed nearly at the same ⟨time⟩ by other earthquakes at immense distances. In (illegible text)lition to those of Carlstadt, in Sweden; and Dan(illegible text) in England; an earthquake happened on the (illegible text) of August, in Siberia. A private letter from (illegible text)msk, in Siberia, dated the 28th of July, (9th of ⟨August⟩, new style) gives the following detail:—"At ⟨ten⟩ minutes past ten at night, a violent earthquake ⟨was⟩ felt in our city. The shock was so violent that ⟨I could⟩ not write, but hurried out of my chamber. ⟨The⟩ house shook, and we heard a terrible noise. The ⟨direction⟩ of the shock was from north to south. It ⟨lasted⟩ nearly sixty seconds. The weather was calm ⟨and⟩ serene."
The city of Latakia (the Laodicea of Holy Writ,) ⟨which⟩ is about seventy-five miles distant from Aleppo, ⟨has⟩, like the latter city, been visited with an ⟨earthquake⟩, in the night of the 13th of August, which has ⟨done⟩ great damage. A shock had been felt on the (illegible text)ch, and it was imagined that all was over, when, ⟨on⟩ the 13th, about twenty minutes past nine in the ⟨evening⟩, a slight trembling was the harbinger of most ⟨violent⟩ shocks that immediately followed. They ⟨began⟩ from north to south, and then took a direction ⟨from⟩ east to west. The shock continued for forty ⟨seconds⟩. The quarter in which the houses of the
