18 WILLIAM T. BRIGHAM 



Haven it was not at all felt in the churches, and only slightly by a few people in their 

 own houses. " At North Milford, six miles west of New Haven, it was not perceived. At 

 Milford, still further west, and at Bridgeport, it was felt and heard distinctly. Hence we 

 hear of it to the north and northeast as very distinct, nine to twenty-five miles from New 

 Haven. It was very perceptible in some parts of Massachusetts — not at all in Westfield. 

 In Worcester County it was severe. In Boston there was nothing of it." Some observers 

 thought the noise proceeded from east to west, others from northeast to southwest ; and 

 one who was used to earthquakes, thought that at Chester, in Connecticut, near East Had- 

 dam, the rumbling continued half a minute, and its course was from northwest to south- 

 east. At Chester, twenty-five miles east of New Haven, the shock was distinctly noticed. 

 The sound was compared to the roll of thunder, the rumbling of a carriage, and the roar 

 of a chimney on fire. The weather was clear, and the sun shining bright. There seems 

 to be no record of the time of day.^ September 10. A violent shock at Hamilton, Can- 

 ada, from west to east. 



November 11, 1840, a severe shock was felt at Philadelphia, accompanied by a great 

 and unusually sudden swell in the Delaware. On the fourteenth of the same month, 

 there was a noise and shock observed in Philadelphia (not New Haven, as Mallet has it), 

 but the members of the American Philosophical Society could not determine whether it 

 was caused by an earthquake or a meteor.^ 



January 25, 1841, several shocks were felt in New York in the morning, lasting 



from fifteen to twenty seconds in all, with a direction from west to east.^ During 

 this year a shock was reported in Canada, but it is very doubtful. A large mass of rock 

 fell from a cliff, and was probably the origin of the shocks, as in February, 1796, when a 

 fall of part of the ledge at Niagara Falls caused a tremor which was credited to an earth- 

 quake. 



November 9, 1842, an earthquake at Montreal, Three Rivers, and other parts 



of Canada, when " the waters of the St. Lawrence were violently agitated."^ 



October 26, 1845, a slight shock was felt at New York, and in the western part 



of New England. 



May 30, 1848, at V^ 30' P.M., a shock was distinctly felt at Newburyport, Salem, 



and adjacent towns. July 10, a series of shocks commenced at Deerfield, New 

 Hampshire, which continued on September 11, iii sunset; October 2%, ai 9''P.M. ; 31, at 

 night ; December 2. None of these were severe, and as Deerfield is on the line be- 

 tween Newbury and Montreal, it is remarkable that these tremors were not felt at a 

 greater distance. They were repeated the next year. 



January 8, 1847, about 3'' P.M., a shock at Grafton Harbor, and a remarkable 



tide on Lake Ontario. January 11, at ll"" 30' P.M., a shock at Albany, N. Y. 

 The Journal of Commerce, of January 20, reports a slight shock at Lincolnville and Camden, 

 Maine. February 2, at Deerfield. On the fourteenth at Meredith Village, New Hampshire, 

 on the nineteenth at Belfast, Maine, and on the twenty-first at Deerfield. All these were 

 liglit, and very local. April 1, at 9'' P.M., at Lunington, Maine. June 9, a tide was noticed 

 at Lake Winnepiseogee, New Hampshire. July 9, in the morning a shock was felt at Glens 



' Silliinan's Journal, vol. xxxix (2), p. 335. HartforJ and ' Comptes Kenilus, t. xir, p. 449. 



New Haven Congregational Observer, August 2, 1840. ' British Assoeiation Report. Transactions of Sections, 



^Silliman's Journal, vol. XL (2), p. 37G. 1S40, p. 20. Moniteur Dec. 5, 1842. 



