8ft Additional Notes on the 



" Within the above space, twenty-one chimnies liave 

 been thrown down or damaged. One stone house ahiiost 

 entirely demolished, several others split, and many stoves 

 and ovens broke down, besides the damage done to the 

 church of the Eboulemens, (mentioned in our last). 



" It is remarkable that during the first days the shock 

 came on regularly at the same hour, morning and evening, 

 — and since the 6th till now, (the 19th,) we have had at 

 least four or five shocks every day. 



" The 17th, about half after five o'clock in the evening, 

 a globe ofjire, appearing to the eye of the size of a forty- 

 eight pound cannon ball, was observed coming from the 

 aouth-west, striking towards the north-east, and at the 

 height of about one hundred and forty toises, disappeared 

 in its perpendicular descent, above St. Paul's Bay, after 

 bursting with an explosion. 



" Many old people remark that for several quarter- 

 centuries back, earthquakes similar to the present have 

 happened ; which lasted forty days, and find their return 

 tolerably exact every twenty-five years, to a year or two of 

 variation, and that the present is the third which to their 

 recollection has taken place in the same season, within 

 the difference of a month or two. 



*' In the history of Canada mention is made of a more 

 violent earthquake, in the month of July, 1663, than any 

 felt since, having then lasted six months, and began in the 

 preceding January. 



" Dating from that period there aj)pears to have hap- 

 pened one regularly every twenty-five years — for since 

 1663 to the present year, five quarter-centuries and three 

 years have elapsed. 



" Previou? to and ever since the 6th inst. the weather 



