PHYSICAL AND LITERARY.' 4% 



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Art. -XXXVL 



Accounts of extraordinary Motio7is of the Wa-J^ 

 ters in federal' Places 0/' North Britain, an'd' 

 of a Shock of., an. -Earthquake felt at Dud^*' 

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pN E great defign of the ; iiiftltution'^of 

 this Society, being faithfully? to recoM^ 

 every remarkable, phenomenon in ^nature that- 

 occurs, it has been thought proper to infert 

 the following accounts of the effeds of ^hei 

 late earthquakes, as they have ,b?en obferved 

 in our diftrid: of North Britain -,.,, j\!Oi: ,6.0 wc 

 regrete, that they are not more fingular 'or 

 interefting in their kind. When all the 

 fads and circumftances Oiall be colleded 

 by the united labours of the- -learned in dif- 

 ferent places, there is reafon to exped, they 

 may furnifh materials for a more cornpleat 

 and accurate hiflory, than hath been tranf- 

 mitted of any like event that ever happened 

 in any preceeding age of the world. 



That a tremor, v/hich is hardly to befelt> 

 at land, or which may altogether efcape 



notice 



