Profefor WitLYAMS on Earthquakes. 273 
the liquour in it; which was thrown out with fuch force, as 
to break down one whole fide of the fhed that defended the 
the ciftern from the weather ; as alfo to ftave off a board or two 
from’ a fence, at the diftance of eight or ten fect from it." 
Much the fame things were obferved in the country. At 
Spring field, a town: diftant about eighty miles in a wefterly line 
from Boffon, a fpindle on one of their churches, was bent to 
-a right-angle.— And through the whole province, niuch dam- 
age was done by the throwing down of ftone fences, cellar walls, 
chimnies, and: the like. Thefe things may. ferve to give us 
. pretty jut ideas of its violence: but it is to be obferved, that 
the violence of the fhock was different in different places ; and 
. fotexa&ly the fame in towns Mb to one pg o or 
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» iquake in the country, whofe dura- 
Son was ; determined with fo much accuracy as | was that c of this. 
‘Profetfor Vi nthrop at Cambridge, the day before, had adjufted 
dus clock: and watch by a meridian line. His clock was ftop- 
‘ped gt a DI ans ` Being awaked by the earthquake, he arofe, 
.and. looking u pean | his watch, found | it to be fifteen minutes after 
fox. "The j jarr ; ng co continued about a: minute after this. The 
next day” the watch v Ww (as "found t to have kept time very exactly. 
‘50 y that. the duration 43 the hike anger in 1 the nye of 
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; ee of its ditat at date: nén pretty well with 
| fome of the fame kind made at Bofton, by gentlemen who were 
Ups and looked “upon their watches when it vegani put aded 
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