Profefir WILLIAMS on Earthquakes. 265 
And: forne mountains appeared to be much broken and moved. 
Half way between Tadouffac and Quebec, two mountains were 
. fhaken down : and the earth thus thrown down, formed a point 
of land, which extended half a quarter of a league into the ri- 
wet Sr. Lawrence. The ifland Aux Coudres, became larger 
than it was before : and the channel in the river, became much 
altered. * 
From thefe accounts it is ide; ikat Cu « was M hier 
feat of thefe concuffions’: and of confequence, as it proceeded 
from thofe parts, its courfe muft have been from fome point 
between the weft and north ; probably much the fame with 
that of 1638. 
After an interval of fixty-four years, (in which there had 
been feveral fmall fhocks, -but none fo- violent as to occafion à 
very long rémembrariced-) there came om another very memo- 
rable one, October 29, 1727, O. S. "About ro^ 40, P. M, 
in a very clear air and: ferene fky, when: every thing feemed to 
be ina moft perfet calni and -tranquility, a heavy rumbling 
noife was heard. At firft it fcemcá to be at.a diftance, but in« 
creafed as it came near, till it was thought equal to the roar ad | 
a blazing chimney, and at laft to the rattling of carriag 
ing fiercely on pavements. _ In about -half a: nies frei the 
time the report was firft heard, the earthquake came on. It 
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+ fa Phil. Tranf. No. 437 mention is made of earthquakes i in 2 1666, 1665, 1668 
and 1669. Dr. Mather {peaks of earthquakes in 1670 and'in 1705. "There was 
another in 1320, on January 8. But thefe, with fome others, having been to 
{mall to occafion a general notice, and being only mentioned without any particu 
lar account of them, are paffed by, as not affording us any light with regard to the 
mature, caufe, or effects of thefe phenomena. 
