menfuration); and there were hr.

, of there great
wavings, fucceeded by one, which was (mallet This
fort of motion, after having continued, as has beat
conjottured, about a minute, abated a little ; fo that
I, who was Pill then waked, and, I fuppofe, aloft
others, imagined, that the height of the thock was
pall. But infiantly, without a moment's intermit-
boa , the (hock came on with redoubled node and
violence ; though the tpecies of it Ma altered to a
tremor, or quick horizontal vibratory motion, with
fudden jerks and wrenches. The bed, on which I
lay, was now toiled from fide to fide ; the whole
Nude was prodigionfly agitated ; the windows rattled,
she beams cracked, as if all would prefcntly be
Auk= to pieces. Whets this had continued about a',
it began to abate, and gradually kept &creating, as if
it would be foon over : however, before it had quite
seated, there was a little revival of the trembling
and noun, though no-ways comparable to what had
been before : but this pretently decreated, till all,
by degrees, became flill and quiet. Thus ended
this great (hock. It was followed by another about
an hour and a quarter after, viz. 12 5, 19. This,
though comparatively (mall, was vety generally per-
ceived, both as to its wife and trembling, by thoW
who were awake. On the Saturday evening follow-
ing, viz. the zod of November, at 17' after eight,
there was third, more confiderable than the fccond,
but not to be compared with the firft. And on Fri-
day the loth of 1rcemlrer in the evening, exaaly
at ten o' clock, there was a fourth (bock, much
finaller than either of the former, though, like them
preceded by the peculiar noifc of an earthquake.
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