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Consequences of the Deluge.

by a new one, it lost 60000 of its Inhabi'tants: Gregory the then Biihop, being by ^Divine Favour, and in a manner miraculously preserved, the Houle wherein he abo° c

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falling dow n presently after hisof it

Eufehius and Spartianus make mention o 1an Earthquake in the Empcrour Adri‘i» stime, wherein Nicomedia and Nicœa ot B f 'thynia , and Nicopolis and Cœforea, Cities 01palxjiina were thrown down and ruined.

In the Year i ,82.. when Saladin set liiU 1 'self to overthrow the Kingdom of Jerttfal^there happened an Earthquake, in whi^ 1Antiechia , Laodiceafolapia^ Ca/area, Emift’Tripolis, and other famous Cities , were v'most wholly thrown down and destrofe.l.

To omit many that are recorded in an 01 'ent Histories,and to come near to our tim eS;

Æneas Sylvius , afterwards Pope by d ,e

Name of Pius the Second, in a Letter of b )S

to the Emperour Frederick , thus pitiful^

describes an Earthquake that fell out in bf

time; Audies ex latore præsentium quatn

rah ilia (§ incredihilia clamna fecerit Tests

rnotus in Regno Apulia:, nam mult a oppif

funditus corruerunt, alia magna ex parte c °j.j

lapja font. Neapoli omnes fere Ecclejise y

fnaxima Talatia ceciderunt. plufquam tri# r

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