^& September 1748. 



The greateft difference in the rifing and 

 falling of the barometer, is according ta 

 the obfervations made for feveral years to- 

 gether by Mr. James Logan, found at a8'' 

 59 and 30" 78. 



Here are three printers, and every week 

 fwo Englijh, and one German news-paper 

 is printed. 



In the year 1732, on the fifth of Septem- 

 ber, old ftyle, a little earthquake was fek 

 here about noon, and at the fame time at 

 Bojion in New England, and at Montreal in , 

 Canada, which places are above fixty Swe-^^ 

 dijh miles afunder. 



In the month of November of the yelr 

 iyTfJ, the well known prince from mount 

 Lebanon, Sheich Sidi came to Philadelphia, on 

 his travels through moft of the Englifb 

 American colonies. And in the fame year 

 a fecond earthquake was felt about eleven 

 o'clock at night, on the feventh of Decern^ 

 ber. But it did not continue above half a 

 minute, and yet, it was felt according to 

 the accounts of the gazettes at the fame 

 hour in Newcaftle, New Tork, New London, 

 Bojion, and other towns of New England. 

 It had therefore likewife reached feveral 

 ihiles. 



The count Sinzendorf* arrived here in 



* Head of the Moravian Brethren. F. 



the 



