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Ajjr'd 24, 1758, Q*" 30' P.M., a trembling lasting thirty seconds and preceded by sub- 

 terranean noises which increased by degrees, was felt at Annapolis, Maryland, and more 

 feeblv in Pennsylvania.^ 



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Annual Register, quoted by Mallet.^ 



England.^ 

 November 9, at Boston a slight tremor.* More severe in the neighborhood. 



February 2, 1758, a slight shock at Boston. The date 1759 is given in the 



nnual Register, quoted by Mallet.^ 



February 3, 1760, slight in New England.^ 



November 9, at Boston a slight tremor.* 



February, at Boston, no mensual date given.^ 



March 12 and 16,^ in New England, especially at Boston, more violent on the 

 former date. "Salem, March 12. We were, last night, about quarter pa.st two o'clock, 

 roused out of our beds by an astonishing earthquake, much such as that five years ago, 

 only that was a more terrible jar and this was undulating."" The later date is perhaps a 

 mistake. Professor Williams does not mention it, but describes the earthquake of the 

 12th as slight, commencing at 2"" 30' A.M., with a slight shock, followed after a slight 

 pause by another more violent. The weather was moderate, perfectly calm, and a whitish 

 fog covered the horizon all around. It was felt in all the neighboring States.* 



November 1, S*" P.M., a shock was felt through Massachusetts and in New Hampshire. It 

 was preceded by the usual rumbling noise, and its course was from northwest to southeast.^ 



October 30, 1763, 4"" 15' P.M., a shock was felt in Philadelphia which interrupted ser- 

 vices in the churches, but did no damage. Our only authority for this, however, is a 

 newspaper report.^" 



February 2, 1766. In Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and other parts of New 

 England, accompanied by a remarkable meteor.^ 



June 14, in Essex County, Massachusetts. 



August 25, at Newport, Rhode Island, a violent shock lasting twenty-five minutes. 



December 17, 6'' 48' at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a violent shock.^ An earthquake 

 reported on February 2, 1776, did not occur. 



November 29, 1783, about lO"" 50' P.M., an earthquake was felt from New 

 Hampshire to Pennsylvania. It was slight, and at Boston and in New England 

 generally, only one shock was felt, and that from north to south and continuing about one 

 minute. At New York three shocks were felt about 9'', ll"" P.M., and 2^ A.M. At Phil- 

 adelphia, one about 9'' P.M., and another about 2'' A.M.^^ 



January 2, 1785, 7-'' 15' A.M., a shock was felt at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 and at the same time at Baltimore, Maryland." 



November 29, 1786, 4'' P.M., at Cambridge. ^^ 1786. 



February 25, 1787, l"* A.M., again at Cambridge.^* 1787. 



1 Collection Aeademique, t. vi, p. 688. n Silliman's Journal, vol. xxxix, p. 336. 



' Doddcsley's Annual Register, vol. ii. p. 88. J2 Annual Register, vol. x, p. 52. The Gazette de France, 



» Annual Register, vol. in, p. 92. 6 Mars, 1767, gives the date as 13, ami the time 6' 40' P.M. 



* Gazette de France, Jan. 31, 1761. "Professor Williams, /oc. cit. p. 279. The Gazette de 



* Journal Historicjue, Juillet, 1761, p. 65. Leyde, Jan. 23. 1784, gives the time of the shocks at New 

 « Annual Register, vol. iv, p. 117. York as 10' 30' P.M., and 2' 30' A.M. 



' Smith's Journal quoted in Felt's Annals of Salem, p. 457. " fiphemeris de Mannheim, 1785, p. 582. V<jn Hoff', Ges- 



' Memoirs of the American Academy, vol. i, p. 278. chichte der Verandurungen, t. ii, s. 541, merely refere to it 



* Loc. cit. p. 279. 16 L„c. cit. p. 590. 



1° Gazette de France, 9 Janvier, 1764. i« Loc. cit. 1787, p. 350. 



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