276 Profefor WILLIAMS om, Earthquakes. 
As the effects of this earthquake, great. alterations -were ob- 
ferved in the fprings, wells.and ponds, of water. . In fome, the 
quality of the water was) altered ;-in others, the quantity. 
New fprings were opened ; old ones dried up : the.channel in 
many, was much changed ; and the water in fome was obferved 
‘to boil up inan unufual manner, for {everal days both before 
and after the earthquake. - At Pembroke, Scituate and Lanca ij- 
ter, there were chafms made in the earth. At Pembroke, there 
were four ¢ or five of them ; out of (ome of which, water iffued, 
and ‘many cart-loads of a fine, whitith and comprefiible fort. 
of fand, was fpewed.* Nor were its effe&ts confned to the 
land ;—feveral of the fea-faring 1 men agreed in their accounts, 
that almoft immediately after the earthquake, large numbers of 
fifh, of different forts, both great and fmall, came up to the 
farface of the water,—fome dead, and others dying., One of 
e EE ve. at that time out upon the apr took up 
in hag amber, dead and dying, cae the fasface of the 
fea. TS Por 
‘The 
» Speaking of thisfand, “ By what I have heard,” er Dr. Mayhew, * it was 
“ of afolphureous nature.” It is to be regretted, that no experiments m mde 
with it, to determine, with certainty, whether this was the -cafe or ni not. qu 
T In phenomena, of whofe caufes we have fo little knowledge, it is beft to note 
every circumftance however minute, and whether it feemsto-have much connection 
with the fappofed caufes or not ; as we do not know but that they may beof &fe, 
when future obfervations come to be compared with them. For this reafon, it may 
sot be a mif to fubjoin to the above account, 1. That at the time of the earth- 
a = : no o alteration i in the atmofphere, as to its weight or temperature = 
: ermontt 'going-amy alteration: ^2. A very great white 
froft was chile Ved T the sides, much larger than had been for feveral years. 
e was melted, Profeffor — meafured i it, and found that it covered the 
ground 
