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CATALOGUE.— JIETEOROLOGrY<«A»BUQUAKES. 



god and Cavendish on lunoinous arches. 

 Ph. tr. 1790. 33 . . 47,101. 



Cav'cndish thinks, tliat the height wis between 52 and 

 71 miles; observes, that the diffused nature of the light 

 may make the appearance different in different places, and 

 thus make distant observations fallacious ; says, that the 

 common aurora borealis has been supposed to consist of 

 parallel streams. 



Libes in Rozier. June 1790. Febr. 1791. 



XXXVIII. 191. 

 Lichtenberg in Erxleben. 



Compares the aurora borealis to th^ excitation gf the 

 tourmalin by heat. 



Dalton's meteorological observations. 8. 

 1793. 54, 153. 



Thinks that the apparent beams of the aurora borealis 

 are the projections of cylindrical portions of a magnetic fluid 

 which are actually parallel to the dipping needle, and 

 therefore appear to converge to the magnetic pole, that the 

 light is produced by the transmission of electricity through 

 them, which somewhat disturbs their magnetic properties. 

 TTie arches are always perpendicular to the magnetic meri- 

 dian, and, being more pcrmanentin their form, afford an op- 

 portunity of determining the height, which from one observ- 

 arion on a base of B-2 miles, appears to be about i so miles. 



Ciiimincllo 011 a luminous arch. Soc. Ital. 

 VIL 153. 



Ritter on the hinnr periods of the aurora bo- 

 realis. Gilb. XV. 206. ' 



Earthquakes and Agitations. 

 In order of time. 



Account of authors. VVeigels Chemie. §. 369. 

 An earthquake in the year 17 destroyed 12 



cities in Asia. 

 Herculaneum destroyed in 79. 

 Earthquakes at Antioch in 115,458^526, 



528,581 and 1159- 

 The Thames ebbed for a whole day, 1214. 

 St. Paul's injured in 1580. 

 Boyle. Ph. tr. 1665— 6. 1. 179. 



Near Oxford. 



Pigot, Ph.tr. 1683- XIIL 311. 



At Oxford. 



Listeronearll^qijakps.Ph. tr.l684. XIV.511. 



Deduces them from pyrites. 



Lima nearly destroyed in 1689 : a hundred 



thousand perished. 

 Hartop and Burges. Ph. Ir, l69.^. XVII. 



8?7, 830. 



In Sicily. 



Bonajuto. Ph. it. 1694. XVI II. o. 



la Sicily, 60 menkilled. 



Sloane. Ph. tr. 1694. XVIII. 78. 



In Peru, 168". 



Ph. tr. 1700. XXII. 



Effects on tlie rivers about Batavia. 



Lem6ry. A. P. 1700. 101. H. 54. 



Thoresby. Ph. tr. 1704. XXIV. 1555. 



An overflow of the sea near Avranches, A. P. 



1716. H. 16. 

 Barrel. Ph. tr. 1727. XXXV. 305. 

 Colman. Ph. tr. 1729- XXXVI. 124. 



At Boston. 



Cyriili historla terraemotusNeapoiitani, 1733. 



Ph. 1731.tr. XXXVIH. 79. 

 Cyriili aeris terraeque historia, 1732. Ph. tr. 



1733. XXXVIII. 184. 

 Lewis. Ph. tr. 1733. XXXVIII. 120. 

 Dudley. Ph. tr. 1735. XXXIX. Q3. 



In New England. 



Duke of Richmond and others. Ph. tr. 1736. 



XXXIX. 361. 



Sussex and elsewhere. 



Temple. Ph.tr. 1740. XLI. 340. 



At Naples ; the shock was slight, but it was attended by 

 a remarkable agitation of the nervous system in all who felt 

 \U This seems to favour the supposition that electricity i« 

 concerned. 



Johnson. Ph. tr. 1741. XLI. §01. 



At Scarborough. 



Plant.Ph.tr. 1742. XLII. 33. 



In New England. 



Ph. tr. 1742. XLII. 77- 



Leghorn. 

 A great earthquake at Lima in 1746. 

 Forster. Ph. tr. 1748. XLV. 398. 



Taunton. 



