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Fah. from seven till two p. m. In this county many trees 

 and buildings were blown down, and other damages done. 



At thirty minutes past eleven o'clock on the morning 

 of the 20th. a heavy shock of an earthquake was felt at 

 this place, its duration was nearly thirty seconds. There 

 was one continuous shaking, attended hy a low rumbling 

 sound similar to that produced by the passage of a heavy 

 Avagon over frozen ground, a fiict observed by several of 

 our citizens and quite uniformly described by them, more 

 particularly b}^ those who were walking along the street. 

 Door bells were rang, crockery thrown from shelves and 

 broken, rocking chairs set in motion, tables tipped, 

 houses rocked and creaked, doors opened, chimneys were 

 thrown down, and various other demonstrations of its 

 pOAver Avere manifested. Several persons standing on the 

 deck of the "Lady of the Lake," (an iron steamer which 

 plies the waters of Lake Memphremagog) , felt the shock 

 severely and were frightened. The Avaters near the shore 

 Avere noticed to be roiled. The day was rainy and when 

 the shock occured it Avas raining A^ery heavily Avithout 

 the least breath of Avind. 



We learn that this shock Avas felt along the Atlantic 



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Coast and far into the interior of the LTnited States. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



The Molluscan Fauna of New Haven. A critical rcAioAv of :ill 

 the Marine, Fresh Water and Land jNIolhisca of the region, with 

 descriptions of many of the living animals and of two new spe- 

 cies. By George II. Perkins, Ph. I)., Professor of Zoology, Bot- 

 any and Geology, in the University of Vermont. [From the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. XIII, 

 1869.] 



