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100 TRAVELS IN EUROPE.remained in perfect possession ofhis recollections, but funy impre~etfthat it \Vas the day of the last judgement; of course anxions]y bent inmind on what was to follow. What a state of the human thoughts.~ Atthe end of the above period there ensued a universal SCFeam of ..tJ1seric01ldia!for every human heing capable 'of reflection was impressedwith a similar idea.After a lapse of some time the darkness becamevisible. Then groans and wailings wereloud and incessant. At length,"ivors the dreadful scene in which they nad bo:rne a: part. l ...amel1l:tableto say", murder and robbery were the first effects of rnanki·nd's l'eco..very'from fear.Ta those who viewed it from ft distance, a vast andthe thick cloud of dust dispersed, and presente€l to the eyes of the sur­instantaneous cloud of dust usuFped the place. ,vhere they had t't.. momenthefore seen the city: but these per,sons were mostly thrown offtheir féet by the violence of the shock. This shock was flot und.ulatorYJDut horizontal. The sea, at a corresponding period, rose severa} fee1 .at Gibraltar.Various antecedent occurrences, which might have stoOtllin the place of warnings, were recollected when the catastr:ophe hadhappenecl. The kinghad a Neapo}itan musician; l1is majesty onceasked him howhe liked, Lisbon? to wbich the musicitlD replied:,as in(lutY bound, "Very weU/' but added, It was mnch mor,e sua)ect taearthquakes tbau Naples. It may he judged he shared the f~lte thatkas ever attended prophetsc ("'\tVoe to thee, thou: proud city J?'),derision..He and bis remark eq:ually: excited ridicule; the poorman's b,ains, forsooth,were so addled with the shocks of Naples, that, like the efi'ects'ofthe motion of a ship for sorne tirlle aiter quitting it, ~hey foHowed himwherever he went.J3ut the fact was,. he who. was babi1uated to thesematters o~servedthemselves.~y:mptoms which were unnoticeable tothe nati,vesBe aU as it may: to judge by their mode of buildingtheyca-tainly here never expect to expérience the viscÏtatiou of aUQtner~