178 OC. E. West on an Earthquake in Western New York. 
Many examples of a similar character might be given to show 
the nature of this earthquake, as experienced by the inhabitants 
of Buffalo, but sufficient have been cited for our purpose. 
Houses were shaken, door bells were rung, crockery rattled upon 
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in Aurora, a town 16 miles 8.E. of Buffalo. He was digging 
potatoes in his field, at the time of the earthquake, and so power- 
ful was the shock, that he instinctively leaned upon his hoe- 
handle, and while in this posture, he observed the dirt shake 
back and forth over the top of the hoe, which was partially 
buried in the soil. 
J. Henning, Esq., editor of one of the Toronto, C. W. papers, — 
writes, “‘In reply to your note of yesterday, enquiring we 
felt, or I am inclined to think, fancied to be felt, by some par- 
ties. There was no mention of it in those places until after the 
the latter city, several other localities claimed the honor of @ 
visit. I think on the whole, the Hamilton hills bounded its pro 
same time as in Buffalo. The noise was very distinct, as of & 
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_ undulation in our dwellings, and to make dishes and stoves 
-fattle audibly. The same phenomena attended its appearance a» 
about the same time at St. Catharines, twelve miles west of this. 
Ju rites, “The earthquake on the 
port, 
lt here very sensibly, though pro mg hao - 
I was myself in the cars between 1 rt 
Clerk’s office in this village, it is said to have 
by a low rumbling noise not unlike the heavy 
iin of cars approaching from a distance. The 
