Notice of the Earthquakes at Brussa

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A fter a lapse of six weeks since the first great shock, with a succession of others quite harmless, and when confidence was beginning to revive, the inhabitants were panic-struck on the evening of the 11th April, at 8 o'clock, by an earthquake incomparably more terrific and destructive than the former. By its resistless force, computed of about thirty seconds' duration, almost every stone-building left standing was overturned, or irreparably shattered; and masses of rock falling from the Citadel Cliff overwhelmed a number of houses below in the Jewish quarter, where upwards of twenty persons were killed. The loss of life in the town is variously computed up to 400 victims, chiefly Turks, but may not exceed 150, as most of the crazy and dangerous dwellings had already been overthrown, and the inhabitants had retired for the night to some kind of lodgings of comparative safety.

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