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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Reports from Thessalonica, Turkey, describe severe plague outbreaks causing widespread devastation, alongside renewed frequent earthquakes starting in August, including one followed by a fireball resembling a full moon, and a subsequent hurricane with heavy rains and thunder, leaving survivors in constant fear.
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There are accounts from Thessalonica, the capital of Macedonia, in Turkey, of prodigious ravages made by the plague in that city; besides which, the earthquakes, so frequent last year, began to be felt again in August last, and continued almost daily: one of them was followed by a ball of fire, which rose from the earth at the east part of the city, and directed its course horizontally towards the west; its appearance nearly resembling a full moon. After the next shock they had a violent hurricane, followed with great rains and terrible thunder claps; so much that the inhabitants, who escaped the infection, were in continual terror.
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Thessalonica, Macedonia, Turkey
Event Date
August Last
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prodigious ravages made by the plague; inhabitants in continual terror
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Accounts describe prodigious ravages by the plague in Thessalonica; earthquakes frequent last year resumed in August last and continued almost daily; one shock followed by a ball of fire rising from the east part of the city, moving horizontally west, resembling a full moon; subsequent shock followed by violent hurricane, great rains, and terrible thunder claps.