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there was a noise heard like Thunder, ^flames frequently broke out of the Earth 0a noisome (cent, but not Sulphureous , a °.which burnt nothing, yet was there no r>or chap in the ground, lave only in 0I ?place, the depth whereof was in val(earch’t, and which afterwards closed U P'And before this Earthquake also flamespeared for 4 days upon a MountainGeneva.

It is very strange and remarkable that t* 1 ,flames that issued out were of the naturean Ignis fatuus , and burnt nothing; 3,1that ( as Monsieur Colbert writes) the East* 1 'quake raged every Night, and never in t' 1Day-time. ,

Concerning Earthquakes, I (hall onlytwo Observations. ,

1. That it is not likely that they spendstheir strength upon Cities,but do indifferentIy (hake, break in sunder, and throw do^fMountains and Rocks ; and seeing few &Kties there are but have been shaken ,many ruined and subverted by them , 3,lt !levelled with the Ground ; there is g°freason to think, that few Rocks or Mountshave eseaped their Fury , but have suffer# 1the like Concussions and Alterations.

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