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VHI. one Creations and Conjectures on the koi of 
New-England. By Profefor WirriAMs, F. A. A. 
N looking over M i the hiftories of New-England, 1 
obferved; that the refigious turn of mind which diftinguifh- 
ed the firft planters of New-England, had lead them to take 
notice of all the Earthquakes which happened in the country, 
sce ei arrival. Several of them feemed to be pretty well 
3 and in fome of their phenomena, there feemed to 
be an agreement. As ftvéral of thefe accounts were contained 
in writings but little known, I thought it might be of fome 
fervice to philofophy, if a particular account of them could be 
coliected. This is what I have attempted in the following trea- 
tife. . In the:fir/? part of it, I have fet down the moft particu- 
lar a accounts F could eae of their pepe The /econd con- 
tions. ` In the third, conjectures are beds as to their red : 
and in the fourth, fome generat reflections are added a as to their 
nature, ufe, and effects. | 
` The moft likely way to come to the knowledge of their 
caufes, is to obíerve all the phenomena that attend them. That 
the reader might have a true account of thefe phenomena, it 
' was my endeavour, in the accounts and obfervations, to note 
all the particulars that feemed to relate to them, however mi- 
nute or trivial fome of them might appear. With this view, 
A confulted all the accounts I could find. From feveral of them, 
(the Honourable Profeffor Hinthrop’s Lectures on Earthquakes, 
in particular) T have received much help. Others referred to 
authors of which I could noc have the advantage of a perufal, 
That gentlemen of fcience might have it in their power to ex- 
amine 
