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This may particularly be fuppofed to be thé 

 cafe on the coafts of Portugal, which lie opefi 

 and expofed, and, as it were, meet the whole 

 force of the great weftern ocean, which would 

 ftill keep its courfe for a fliort time, though 

 the fhores of Portugal fliould be flopped or 

 flacken in their motion. 



Le (Ter waters may likewife be fuppofed to 

 have been affedled proportionably, by an inftan- 

 taneous ftop or decreafe of motion under them : 

 and the waving of the candles in a tallow- 

 chandler's fhop in Holland, as mentioned in a 

 letter to the Royal Society, may be accounted 

 for on the fame principle ; nor is it improbable, 

 that every vefTel of water, or other liquor, in 

 our houfes, had fome little motion at the time 

 of the {hock , for it is reafonable to believe, that 

 every thing, both by fea and land, was more 

 or lefs affedled in proportion to its fituation, and 

 as it was nearer to or more remote from the place 

 agitated with the greateft violence, which place 

 is not I believe exadlly known. I alfo imagine 

 it will readily be allowed, that the motion of 

 the earth, according to the ordinary courfe of 



nature, 



