360 Miscellanea. 
On THE Recent EARTHQUAKE FELT AT ADDERLEY, IN A LETTER To Ropert 
CHAMBERS, Esq. 
By Ricuarp Corsert, Esa. 
(Ed. New Phil. Journal.) 
Ar half-past four o’clock this morning, (Nov. 7, 1852) railway time, we 
were visited by a really smart shock of an earthquake. Our household 
consists of twenty-two persons, eighteen of whom were fully alive to it, and 
all more or less alarmed. Having myself felt a shock in this house, July 
1832, I was instantly aware of what was taking place. A rumbling, heavy 
noise, which seems to have awakened many who were asleep, shortly 
preceded the shock—this was my case; the sensation was that of being 
rocked in a bed. 
From all that I can collect, it is my belief that the shock passed from 
west to east, and at present we have reason to suppose it was confined to a 
very narrow line. Several of our villagers were much shaken and alarmed. 
The noise must have been considerable, as a very deaf person heard it, and 
resembled that made by a waggon going over pavement. 
The Atmosphere was perfectly dead as described—not the slightest 
movement in the air, and very warm. On Friday last, we had a tremendous 
thunder-storm, and large pieces of ice. I could rather imagine that there 
is some peculiarity in our substrata here, for since 1775 or 1776 we have 
had three very complete shocks of earthquake in this locality. We stand 
upon the edge of the lias, and there has been very near to us a most extensive 
subsidence, forming a valley of unknown depth between the face of the 
lias and that of the new red sandstone, which cross out at the distance of 
a mile and a-half from each other. The intermediate valley is filled with 
northern drift, in which I have bored ninety feet, still in the drift. 
