CHAPTER XXIV.

EUROPEAN EARTHQUAKES.

Legends of the flood--Sparta Destroyed--Bura and Helice engulfed--Numerous convulsions in Asia Minor--Antioch repeatedly destroyed--North Africa suffers--Calabrian earthquake of 1693--A tremendous convulsion in 1783--Immense chasms--People swallowed up--Great landslides--Terrible catastrophe at Scylla--Ruffians amid the wreck--The great Lisbon earthquake--Its vast extent--Awful destruction--Earthquake at Chio--In Switzerland--In Ischia--Distressing scenes in the ruins--Disastrous shocks in Spain 496