ter go (torn the bed to the chimney, without being

thrown down ; end therefore thought it heft not to

attempt i:. The fpace of time, in which I lay
awake. I cannot think to be much, if any thing,
left than a.. This was the conjefture I forrned at
that time ; though, it being but conjefture, I would
not lay very great fliers upon it, were it not fupport_
ed by concurring obfervations. On the (wood abate-
ment I role, and lighting a candle, looked on my
watch, aDd found it to be ay' after four. The
thock then was not quite over, but the windows
conimund rauling for about a minute longer, as near
as I nun remember ; for the ft ock wcnt off very
gradually. As foon as I had looked on the watch,
I went direttly to the clock, which was in another
ehamber, that I might fee whether that agreed with.
the watch, and found that it was Itopt at 4.. t.
Its flopping, however, was not immediately owing to
the vidence of the (hock, though (metal clocks,
and watches too, at Haan, WV laid to have been
flopped by it, but to the following accident Having
forme time before ufed a pretty long glafs tube, in a
particular experiment, I had 'hut it up in the clock-
cafe for fecurity ; and this tube, being overthrown
by the earthquake, lodged againfl the pendulum, .
and flopt its motion. By this accident, the begin-
ning of the earthquake, I conceive, is determined
with all the colands, that mn be deftred foe, fo
far as I can Imre, the heft fhake was violent enough
to overfet fo tall, fonder a body, and Itanding in a
poution fo near a perpendicular, as that tube ; and.
it was impoflible for the pendulum to make one
ofeillation, after the tube had (truck againfl it. But
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