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This may particularly be fuppofed to bé the 

 eafe on the coafts of Portugal, which lie opcir 

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

 force of the great weftern ocean, which ^ould 

 ftill keep its courfe for a fliort time, though 

 the fliores of Portugal fhould be flopped oï^ 

 flacken in their motion. 



Le (Ter waters may like wife be fuppofed to 

 have been afFe6led proportionabiy, by an inftan- 

 taneous flop or dcereafe of motion itnder them? 

 and the waving of the candles in a tallow- 

 chandler's fhop in Holland, as mentioned in à 

 letter to the Royal Society, may be accounted 

 for on the fame principle ; nor is it improbable, 

 that every veffel of water^ or other liquor,^ in 

 our houfes, had fome little motion at the timé 

 of the {hock ^ for it is reafonable to believe, thaf 

 every thing, both by fea and land, was i^ore 

 or lefs affefted in proportion to its fituation, arid 

 as it was nearer to or more remote from the placé 

 agitated with the greateft violence, which placé 

 is not I believe exa6lly known. I alfo imagine 

 it will readily be allowed, that the motion of 

 the earth, according to the orditiary courfe of 



nature^ 



