Consequences of the Deluge.

corpora oppreff'a ruinis traduntur ,V«/«i omnis habitat in teutoriis : i.e. You^ 1 Understand by the Bearer of these Pre-nt s, w hat wonderful and incredible lossesJ 1 Earthquake hath wrought in the King-utn ot Apulia ; for many Towns areutter-w seined, others for the greatest part falfn:a Naples almost all their Churches and fairplaces ate overthrown more then 30000, e ^°ns are said to have been stain , all thehabitants dwell in Tents.

, ^ -Ellis Kingdom of Naples , especially Apu -d* and Calabria, hath, I think, been oftnera ken, and suffered more by Earthquakesuan any other part of Europe. For Cluve-** ks tells us, That in the Year 162.9. theresere dreadful Earthquakes in Apulia , by^jiich 17000 Men are said to have peristr-

p And Athanafius Kircher the Jesuite, in theseface to his Mundus Sulterraueus , givesI s a lad Narrative of a dismal Earthquakep f ^alria, in the Year 1638. wherein him-/ " as, and out of which he hardly escaped||n his Life: Nothing to be seen in thej ^ole Country he pasted by for two hun-pse^ Miles in length , but the Carcasses oft . ltles > and the horrible ruins of Villages ,Ebi ! n l la ^' tan ts wandring about in the open'■‘ds.being lists dead with fear and expecta-tion