Profeffor WILLIAMS on Earthquakes. 267 
EA E ej north-eaft, muft at teaft have ‘been fever 
hundred miles, and probably many more. As to its other 
limit, from north-weft to fouth-eaft, we have no way to de- 
termine how far it extended. ' It was felt by veflels at fea, and 
in the moft remote wefterly fettlements: As it came from the 
unknown päris, between the weft and north, and paffed off into 
the fea, it is probable it might run fome thoufand EET in Tuch 
a courfe. 
There were feveral effects leading’? this CE which 
feem worth y of remark. Befides what is common, as to the 
throwing down pewter, fences, &c. it was obíerved, that fe- 
veral fprings of water, and wells, that: ‘were never Known tobe 
diy or frozen, ^were funk far down into the earth: " Some were 
dried up)’ The quality: ot the. water mended in fome, and fo 
altered in others as to-freeze ir modérite weather. Some fpots. 
of firm dry foil, ‘became perfet quagmires ; and others,” that 
were full of mire and water before, became more dty.- The 
"centre of this ‘earthquake; or place’ of gréateft violence, feems 
to wit WEE åt Newbury,” a' town which lies at the mouth of 
ach-River, “e "There, (kecording to” Dé Coins ie- 
fount) the earth o »éned, rew up feveral Toa 
w (and and athes, mixt with joie aar remains af "Ti 
** (o that, taking up fome of it between the fingers, and” drop- 
ping it into.a chaffing-difh of bright coals, in a dark place, 
inti once in three times the bluc flame of the f felphur would: 
^** plainly arife, and yield a very fimall fent. By this 1 it fems 
py pie EE Te | is P^. : +h “y “Oai 
ERK ^ Cerning 
.* Phil. Trant. Bo. 409: What is here faid of its being a hapa bafi, feems 
bk confirmed by the account which Mr, Dudley fent to. the Reyal Society, in 
which 
