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ed of cedar, which is believed to be the remains of a-Phoeniciaij 

 galley. If this appropriation be just, there is no longer room to 

 doubt that the bold navigators of Tyre had reached the south 

 point of Africa : and if they actually gained that point, we maj 

 infer that they navigated also the eastern oeean. 



EARTHQUAKE AT CORK. 



Between two and three o'clock on Tuesday morning, April 6, 

 a shock of an earthquake was sensibly felt at Cove, Ahada, 

 Middleton, and the neighbourhood of the harbour's mouth. At 

 about half after two o'clock a noise was heard like the rumbling 

 of a heavv carriage, accompanying which vvas a very sensible sha- 

 king of the house, bed, and furniture, which lasted about eight 

 or ten seconds: during the time of its continuance, some of the 

 servants of the house state that they with difficulty preserved them- 

 selves from being shaken out of the bed; in particular a nurse, 

 whose attention to an infant rendered her more liable to such an 

 accident. Immediately after the shock, water vvas dashed against 

 the bed -room windows, in such quantity as to convey the notion 

 that it was thrown at the glass out of vessels. To some persons, the 

 noise accompanying the shock resembled the report of a great gun. 



At Haulbowline island the sensation was very terrific. The 

 watch-house there is built wiih immense masses of limestone, 

 many of them weighing some hundreds; these appeared to the 

 persons in the house to be shaken in such a manner as to create 

 fears of their tumbling down, and made them run into the open 

 air and fall prostrate. At Ahada, opposite Cove, the noise heard 

 was such as resembled the firing of cannon; and many there, but 

 for the earlv hour, were inclined to think it proceeded from the 

 morning gun in the harbour. 



In the town of Middleton the shock was not less severe than in 

 Cork harbour. In one house a bed was sliaken so violently as to 

 cause the person who lay in it to jump up, under an impression 

 that the floor was giving vvay; the water-jug was thrown on its 

 side, and the covershakenoff a teapot which stood on a shelfin the 

 bed-room. Many persons thought it must have proceeded from 

 an explosion of gunpowder at Cove or Spike Island, and for a great 

 part of the day were most anxious to hear from their friends there. 



The more pro jable conjecture is, that some more violent shock 

 has taken place elsewhere, and that details of some dreadful cala- 

 mity may be daily expected. Previous to the account of the awful 

 and destructive earthquake which laid Lisbon in ruins in the year 

 1755, like sensations were felt in Cove, and the entire coast at 

 that side, and we await with no ordinary anxiety to learn if any 

 parts of the Continent have suffered under a like visitation at pre- 

 sent. — {Cork Mercan. Chron. April 1 .) 



SHAKING 



