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here that very few facts could be ascertained in regard to its 
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on of country for many years. I should think the pa yard 
as horizontal only, but as to whether it radiated, and where 
the centre was, I can give you no information. Pear’ it was 
eo linear....... When I felt the shock to which you ‘ 
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is felt t a movement or shaking of the house. 
At Hinsdale, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., which is not many miles 
east of Jamestown, there was no earthquake felt on the 23d 0 
Oct., as I learn from a correspondent—an important fact to be 
borne in mind by the reader. 
vy. William S. Plumer, D.D., of Alleghany, Pa., ponpeets 
Pittsburg, writes, “I have no recollection of feeling any earth- 
quake here during the month of October last; nor do I remem- 
ber to have heard any one speak of it. 
_ Prof. Smith of Jefferson College, RE ES Pa., 20 mules “e 
from Pittsburg, writes, “I can only ay that no shock of 
and circumstances of an earthquake, if it had been perceptible 
here. I have enquired of several persons, both in oe town and 
: Ds but was unable to procure any information on this 
“eorrespondent from Erie, Pa. 90 miles S. W. of Buffalo, 
ites,“ er felt in various parts of the city, both north and. 
th of us—houses were shaken eT the sound was like a 
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= To cits of Paines oil ville, Ohio, on the railroad 
from Erie to are writes, “I have made diligent enquiry, 
and referred also to the files of the two village newspapers here, 
but have no onset and find no mention of an earth @ 
here, on the 23d of Oct. last, or about that time...... We 
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