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Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes…
Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. : With some views of what is to be further and quickly looked for. : Addressed unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. : [Three lines from I Chronicles]Boanerges. A short essay to preserve and strengthen the good impressions produced by earthquakes on the minds of people that have been awakened with them. : With some views of what is to be further and quickly look'd for. : Address'd unto the whole people of New-England, who have been terrified with the late earthquakes; and more especially the towns that have had a more singular share in the terrors of them. : [Three lines from I Chronicles]
Boston: printed for S. Kneeland, 1727
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In our coming to relate the Earthquakes of this Year, it may not be amiss, but be a decent Introduction, to relate, that so lately, as a little above a Year ⟨p. 47⟩ago, in the Night between the first and second of September, between the Hours of Ten and Eleven, the City of Palermo in Sicily, felt some shocks, of an Earthquake, which were not at first very Violent. But they soon increased with great Fury for above Twenty Minutes; whereby about a quarter part of that •reat City, was overturned & overwhelmed, and •ade an Heap of amazing Rubbish: From whence Three Thousand of the Dead, were draw out, five days after, fearfully crushed and mashed, and •••erably broken to pieces. In one Ward of the City, a whole Street gaped at once with an hideous and horrid Noise; and from the Chasm, there issued out Flames, which were mixed with calcined Stones, and a Torrent of Burning Brimstone, whereby in less than half an Hour, the whole Waid was consumed. It was computed, that about Fifteen Thousand People perished in this Desolation. But This Year is what we are now confined unto. We are informed that in the Month of May last, they had several Shocks of an Earthquake, at Arles, in France; and one so Violent, that all the Inhabitants ran out of the City, for fear of being overwhelmed under the Ruins of their Houses, and continued encamped in the open Country, till they hoped the Danger was over. Some of the Shocks were more Violent about Languedoc, than at Arles.
In our coming to relate the Earthquakes of this Year, it may not be amiss, but be a decent Introduction, to relate, that so lately, as a little above a Year ⟨p. 47⟩ago, in the Night between the first and second of September, between the Hours of Ten and Eleven, the City of Palermo in Sicily, felt some shocks, of an Earthquake, which were not at first very Violent. But they soon increased with great Fury for above Twenty Minutes; whereby about a quarter part of that •reat City, was overturn'd & overwhelm'd, and •ade an Heap of amazing Rubbish: From whence Three Thousand of the Dead, were draw out, five days after, fearfully crush'd and mash'd, and erably broken to pieces. In one Ward of the City, a whole Street gaped at once with an hideous and horrid Noise; and from the Chasm, there issued out Flames, which were mixed with calcined Stones, and a Torrent of Burning Brimstone, whereby in less than half an Hour, the whole Waid was consumed. It was computed, that about Fifteen Thousand People perished in this Desolation. But This Year is what we are now confin'd unto. We are informed that in the Month of May last, they had several Shocks of an Earthquake, at Arles, in France; and one so Violent, that all the Inhabitants ran out of the City, for fear of being overwhelmed under the Ruines of their Houses, and continued encamped in the open Countrey, till they hoped the Danger was over. Some of the Shocks were more Violent about Languedoc, than at Arles.