534 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1748. 



veral others also that were abroad assured Mr. F. that they had much ado to 

 save themselves from falling. 



The extent of this earthquake, as far as can be learned, was from sea to sea ; 

 that is, from the South Channel to the Severn. It moved from south-east to 

 north-west, and was felt in every parish through this whole course, which is in 

 length about 40 miles ; nor was its breadth much less ; for it was felt at the 

 same time both at Exeter and Crookhorn, distant also 40 miles, in a line di- 

 rectly across its before-mentioned course. 



Remarks on Mr. Lodwich's vilphahetfor Short-hand. By John Byrom, M.A,, 



F.R.S. N°488, p. 401. 



Mr. Lodwick's Essay towards a Universal Alphabet, was given in N" 182 of 

 the Philos. Trans., and is here criticised and condemned, by Mr. Byrom, who 

 was the author of another more practicable short-hand himself, which he had 

 good opportunity of perfecting, by the great experience he had in teaching it to 

 numerous pupils. 



A Roman Inscription found at Bath. Communicated to the R. S. by the Rev. 

 fVilliam Stuhely, M.D., Fellow of the Coll. of Phys., F.R.S. , and Rector of 

 St. George the Martyr, London. N" 488, p. 409, 



L V VITeLLI VS V MAXIMl 

 NIaH V F V T ▼ ANCINVS ▼ 

 dVES ▼ HISP ▼ CAVRIESIS 

 EQ ▼ ALAE VEtToNVM ▼ CR 

 ANN ▼ XXXXVl ▼ STlP ▼ XXVI\7 

 HV &f LW 



Thus to be read. — Lucius Vitellius Maximiniani filius Titus Ancinus, civis * 

 Hispanus Cauriensis -j- equitum alae Vettonum curator, annos xlvi. stipendii 

 XXVI. hie sepultus est. 



Remarks concerning some Electrical Experiments. By the Rev. Dr. Stephen 



Hales, F.R.S. N° 488, p. 409. 

 A warm thick piece of iron being suspended by 2 silk lines, had a warm very 

 thick piece of brass laid on it, on which was placed a common hell's egg : when 

 electrified, the flashes from the iron were of a bright silver light colour ; from 

 the brass, especially near it, the flashes were green ; and from the egg, of a 

 yellowish flame colour ; which seems to argue, that some particles of those dif- 

 ferent bodies were carried off' in the flashes, whence these different colours were 

 exhibited. 



* Like nubes, lapes, sepes. f Of the city of Coria in Spain. 



