1792" gleanings of literature. Cg 



" Mrs Sutt, v,'lio has much presence of mind, and 

 v(^'^,'-;le;s contused th-.n i:;yself, as (he had not gone to sleep, 

 thought this i.rst (hock consisted of three or four in succef- 

 sion, followirg cs.cn cther like pulses, or waves of the sea. 

 " What from my dizzinefs, the rocking of the earth, 

 the ihucdering hollow noise of the atmosphere, joined to 

 the rattling of furniture, bursting open of doors and win- 

 dow (hutters, the combined cries of goats, ^ogs, cats, and 

 poultry, the cracking of the timbers of the houses and other 

 circumstances, the diemay and horror of the scene was 

 Inexprefsible. 



This (hock proceeded from north to south or from 

 N. N. E. to S. S. W. as appeared afterwards from the 

 progrefs of the mischief of which I was previously convin- 

 ced by observing that some specimens of natural history ; 

 ■which I had placed on (helves in my library, In tliait di- 

 rection, were not displaced, as others were in a contrary 

 posture, but only forced in a regular manner, by protrusion, 

 on the little perpendicular partitions that subdivided the 

 ilielves, to separate the contents. 



" In the account of the earthquake felt at London in the 

 year 1749, communicated by Martin Folkes to the royal 

 society. It Is mentioned, that fifhes leapt above a foot a^d 

 an half high from their ponds, and the same appearance 

 was noticed here at Mosquito Point ; and to prove how 

 violent the stroke was upon the waters, the men of war, 

 and other Ihips In these seas, received such a (hock, that the 

 seamen Imagined they had struck or run aftiore. 



" I remember that In Donah's account of the earthquake 

 f-jlt at Turin, in the year 1755, contained in his letters to 

 Abraham 'i'rcmbly, which are epitomised in the philoso- 

 phical transactions of the year 1766, the foUowIijg query 

 i: offered; 



