282 Profefor Witiiams on Earthquakes: 
all around. But with us, they-have all proceeded in a different 
manner ; andiin-a manner apparently regular ;—fiercely: driving: 
along, as-it were, in- the fame ‘path; as thougli a paflage had: 
been- opened for, or by them, from one country to another ; 
in fome places coming more near, and in others, running more 
remote from the furface of the earth. And. the’ diftance to 
which fome; and probably feveral have run in the fame courfe, 
has been: greatly amazing ;—nineteen. hundred miles. at leat, 
and how much more we know not.- 
From the laft.remark it feems probable, that the earthquakes: 
of this country, have: had their origin at fome:confiderable dif- 
tance to the north-weft of New-Eng/and, and poffibly at much 
the fame place. — Whatever might be the:cafe-with thoíe: (moll 
fhocks: that have had but a fmall extent, or wherefoever they 
might begin, the larger ones have ali been obferved:to come 
from the: north-weft.; and they. were of much: the fame vio- 
lence at the moft north-wefterly fettlements; as at other places 
in.the: country... The place, therefore, where they have had 
dics. origin, muft have beenün fome part of the unknown lands 
which lie to the north-weft of New-Ezg/and ; and probably 
at fome confiderable diftanze from any of the: European fettle- 
ments; as- there has-been-no-account: from.any of them, in: 
whichiit had not the fame direction, coming on from the north- 
weft. Whether the great fhocks have all originated atthe fame: 
place, we have no way to'determine.; but from the'agreement: 
of their courfes:and motions, it feems- not an improbable fup- 
- There feem ‘to have been'a particular part of the continent. 
` of North-America, which has been the feat of the earthquakes 
| “of New? Englend, and to which they have always been confined.. 
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