100 Mr Milne on Earthquake-Shocks fell in Great Britain. 



1750. at Warwick ; Rugby, and thence entered Leicestershire, Ri- 

 gan in Derbyshire, or somewhere else in west, and passed off 

 through Lincolnshire and part of Cambridgeshire ; went 

 through Coventry, Derby, Nottingham, Newark; then east 

 to Towccster, Rowal, Kettering, Wellingborough, Oundle in 

 Northamptonshire, Uppingham and Okham in Rutland, Stam- 

 ford, Bourn, Grantham, Spalding, Boston, Lincoln, Holbeck, 

 Peterborough, Wisbeck ; then passed over whole breadth of 

 Ely Feu, and reached Bury in Suffolk, — in all 100 miles long 

 and 40 broad, and all shocked at same instant. Lasted only 

 a few seconds ; reached to south end of Derby, where very 

 weak. The direction of the motion was from W. or NW. 

 — to E. or SE. Some persons counted four pulses ; the 

 second or third strongest. The shock was scarcely perceived 

 by persons walking ; more by those standing, and most of all 

 by persons sitting ; and perceived more in the upper storeys 

 of houses, than in the lower storeys and cellars. 

 Part of an old wall in College Lane, at Kilmarsh, was thrown 

 down. A gentlewoman, sitting in a chair, was thrown down, 

 and the people ran out of church. At Leicester, the shock 

 was attended with a rushing noise ; the houses tottered, and 

 heaved up and down : some slates and part of a chimne}'^ fell; 

 also, some drinking glasses from shelves ; a child was shaken 

 out of its chair. — (G. Mag. v. xx. 473, and v. xxiii. p. 268.) 

 1753. 

 June 8. A strong shock, accompiinicd by a lifting and tremulous motion, 

 was felt at Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire ; Knutsford, 

 Cheshire, at 11 p.m.; Manchester between 11 and 12 p.m. 

 " Shock was accompanied and succeeded by a rushing noise 

 and explosion like gunpowder fired in the open air. The 

 weather was very calm, and the "sky red, intermixed with 

 black clouds." — (Scots Mag. v. xv. 307.) 

 ... 22. Manchester at 11^^40'. Felt also at Oldham and Ratcliff, and 



in Cheshire. 

 1754. 



Apr. 19. York at 10 or 11 p.m.; Ripon at 11 p.m.; Hull; Stockton; 

 Whitby. 

 This shock was of the pulsatory kind, very regular and uni- 

 form, and lasted in some places 10" and in others 30". It 

 was attended with a rushing sound of the air. At Whitby 

 some doors were thrown open, and others were so squeezed, 

 that they could scarcely be opened. Birds in their cages 

 were thrown off their perches. Motion SW. to NE. (G. 

 Mag. V. XXV. 399.) 

 1755. 



July 31. Between 6 and 7 a.m. at Rushdon in Northamptonshire ; a shock 

 which lasted 5' or 6'. 



Aug* 1. At Althorp, Frodingham, Luddington, and Addingfleet, near 



