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xi. E.t.a of a Letter of Mr. Abraham:

Trembley, F. A. S. to Tha Birch, D.D.
Secret. R. S. Tranflated from tbs French. ,

s R, Hugo, Feb. 175} ,

Ind Feb. 7.1. Wrote to you on the 26th of Noce,*

leer lag, concerning the earthquake
felt ford time before between the Rhine end tie
Meufe. I have been fume infiamed by Profeffed
Dondi of Turin that a Sight fhock had been pa.
dived there on the t Ith of And! 1756, too qui*
ter afo= nine in thc morning. Itwetlikewifoftit
in other parte of Piedmont. He ha Aro cornmece-
cited to me an ontrata of a letter of a profeffor of
Genoa, one of his friends, of which the followi%
is a et:dation.
" On the gth of November we felt lure two
(hocks of an earthquake one at 2o hods, ward .
ing to the Italian way of reckoning ; lion odier
about 4; hours at night. i did not perceive de
hal, being then walking in the bode ; bin I felt
t. the fecond. I was then laid down, aod going*
Seep. The direedion of the undulations was Siam
north to fouth, as far as I could judge."
Mold Donati took left fummer, ccording to his
cullom, a journey, in order to profecute his ref-reran
into natural hiftory. He was accompanied by Dr.
Afcanius, Follow of the Royal Society, ; who ins
in doubt about coral's being a compo6tion if
animals. Mod Douai curied him to the fee of
Provence. He ordered corel to be 6fInd up in la
7 pekoe.

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