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278. .. Proper WALLIAMS on Earthquakes. 
great force ; but ered às though fome final body was fwift~ 
‘Jy rolling along under the earth, which’ gently raifed up that 
part of the furface that was over it, and then left itas ‘gently 
to fubfide. The courfe of this. earthquake’ appeared, to me, 
‘to be from the fouth-weft to the north- eaft.—The noife and 
{hake feemed very ‘plainly to come on, and go off in that direc- 
tion. Imight, however, be deceived by the reflection of the 
found from the adjacent hills, or from'fome other caufe ; for 
~almoft every one judged very ‘differently of its cour fe, at it 
^was from north-weft to fouth-eaft. "This wás the judgment 
“of feveral men, who were at work together, in a large open 
“field, where there was nothing to refleé the found, 6rmiflead 
“the judgment.” It is not impoffible that both might have been 
"right in their opinion ; and this, upon the whole, I am apt to 
“think was the café : that although its general courfé was from 
-horth-weft to fouth-eaft, yet, in particular places, it left its ge- 
i cbc.” and run out to any point of the compafs, as the 
ut BARo V veins, or channels, might lead it. From the ef- 
x RA of Other- earthquakes, particularly that 6f turning and 
“twifting chimnics, ‘&c. it feems as though ‘this had been the 
.Cafe with moft of the large earthquakes we have had. 
¿On the 12th of March, 1781; there was alfo a {mall earth- 
ju t began about 2^ 30" in the morning. It was faid to 
“have “been divided i into two fhocks, with a fmall paufe between, 
| “the laft of which was the greateft. "The weather was moderate, 
| Bu that of the preceding day, and a perfe&- calm refted on the 
P and Y water ; the horizon, all around, being covered with 
E P h fog. _ The duration was füppofed to be about half a 
MANNS, ning in the night, and being too (mall to awake 
“people in. general, nothing can be wlien — any certainty 
