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and different loose objects in the room, rattled. The movement was 

 quite enough to have disturbed any one but a very heavy sleeper. 

 E.Kcept the motion of the windows, Ac, mentioned, no noise or 

 nimbHng sound whatever was heard. The time was noted carefully by 

 a good watch, and corrected a few hours afterwards at the Observatory 

 here, through the kindness of Mr. Hartnup. 



The sky was overcast ; the night very dark ; the air appeared 

 perfectly calm, and, though apparently saturated with moisture, no rain 

 was falling; the temperature was 50.2. For several days previous to 

 the earthquake the temperature had been several degrees higher than 

 the mean average for this period of the year ; the atmosphere damp, 

 extremely electric and oppressive*; the sky overcast, and rain almost 

 daily, as vnll be seen in the table subjoined : 



The above observations are suppUed by Mr. Hartnup. 



The places from which we have accounts of its being felt are 

 Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Bewdley, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, 

 Bath, Kidderminster, Shrewsbury, and Chirk, to the south ; Wexford, 

 Wicklow Mountains, Dublin and its vicinity, Carlow, Carlingford, and 

 Belfast, on the west ; Isle of Man, Lancaster, part of Dumfries, Kendal, 

 Fleetwood, Lytham, Southport, Blackburn, Bury, and Manchester, on 

 the north and east ; so that it appears to have been confined to a tract 

 of country which we may show on a map by describing a circle of about 

 100 to 120 miles radius round Snowdon. 



After allowing for a certain amount of unintentional exaggeration, 

 and taking into account that a very large proportion of those who think 

 that they were awake at the time of its occurrence were really roused 

 by it, and, therefore, less able to form an accurate opinion of its duration, 



