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or poffibly the transforming principle, if lying in the adjacent earths* 

 may have been in this in fiance exhaufted before It reached the mid- 

 dle part of the woocL 



5. There Is no trace of any volcanic matter throughout all the 

 different ftrata penetrated by the borer to the depth of 140 feet; 

 which renders it probable that the mocks of earthquakes not un- 

 frequently left in this part of Bengal, (whether fixch phenomena pro- 

 ceed from the direct action of fire, or from the fudden contact of 

 heated fub fiances, with water in the bowels of the earth, thereby 

 expanding into to vapour; and not merely, according to Doctor 

 Stukely's hypothefis^ from electrical mocks on the furface,) do not 

 proceed from any very proximate eaufe ; and the general feeblenefs 

 of thofe Ihocks leads to the hope that the caufe is remote, and confe- 

 quently that the effect is not likely to be fevere. The Monghir hills, 

 which are faid to contain volcanic matter, are at the diftanee of about 

 $00 miles*.. 



