180 C. E West on an Earthquake in Western New York. 
A very intelligent lady in my immediate neighborhood told 
me distinctly as follows: ‘I well recollect it, “I was a as 
me; the windows rattled; the reality of it was certain, I 
scended to the kitchen and asked my cook if oe knew what 
was the matter, she replied yes ma’am, it thunde 
An educated and excellent friend of mine at pee near t 
about 14 or 15 miles east by south of my residence says, ‘yes 
felt it—I was reclining on my bed at the time. The whol 
house shook so alarmingly that I arose, went down and compared 
notes with others. We all felt it and recognized it as a veritable — 
ae uake.’” i: 
v. E.S. Wright of Fredonia, ee Co., NuY 7 a 2 
sailee “SW. of Buffalo, writes, “the earthquake to which you 
allude, I should think, was felt in ship village, about half past 
8 o'clock on the 23d of Oct. last; at least, somewhere between 
fifteen and thirty minutes past three P.M. At the time, I was — 
—_s with a deacon of my church, a short distance from 
village, who was husking corn in his barn. The sound was 
: ae noise, approaching slowly and re like the heavy 
wheels of a loaded w wagon, in the road. The ‘noise continued 
by a person falling against it in a chair. Soon the house seem 
to rise and sink a ‘little, and all was over. The earthquake was 
felt similarly throughout the place, I believe 
Rev. Cha . Masse sey, of Westfield, Cheniugte Co, N. ¥;; 
57 miles W.S.W. of Buffalo, informs me that the shock was felt 
in that village. 
. D. Sacket, Esq., Editor of the Jamestown Journal, James- 
town, Chautaugque Co., N. Y., S.W. of Westfield, writes, “ The 
shock of an earthquake was distinctly felt at this place and at 
Warren, Pa., (20 miles south) at 3 to 4 o'clock p.m. The char- _ 
acter of the phenomenon was first a shock and then a vibration 
of the ground. Stoves and windows shook. My wife, on a visit 
at Westfield, N, Y., heard a sound, as if the cars were approach- — 
ing. the house, though e road was half a mile off. Ib’ wee 
the + the ac gy = effeot ‘did not seem to continue 
than a moment or tw 
C. L. Hex salons: of Warren, Pa., a town situated oD 
ver, about 120 miles N. 'N.E. of Pittsburg, —< ; 
ee ee toe also felt at 
7 aca It was felt so — : 
