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vibration was felt here, lasting, as nearly as I can gather, some fifteen 

 seconds, and shaking the doors, windows, and beds in this house with some 

 violence. Most curiously, 1 felt nothing of it myself, but several of my 

 servants left their beds in alarm. One of the ladies of my family describes 

 the sensation she experienced as that of having her bed moved to and from 

 the wall against which its head stands, as though some one had got under- 

 neath it and were trying to lift it. As the bedstead in question stands 

 nearly S.E. and N.W., this may serve to give an idea of the path of the 

 earthquake-wave, if such it were. I learn from various sources that this 

 oscillation and vibration were felt all over the parish. Finally, three of 

 my female servants were again alarmed some time after midnight by a 

 rushing sound, as though of violent hail, passing close to their windows, 

 although, on looking out, nothing was visible, nor has either hail or rain 

 fallen here since the 28th ultimo." [It has been reported that a second 

 shock was felt soon after midnight, but not so forcible as the first.] In the 

 town of Lewes, it appears, the shock was distinctly felt. One lady states 

 that while speaking to her servant in the kitchen, a few minutes after 

 eleven o'clock, she heard a sudden shaking of the front door and windows, 

 the unusual violence of which greatly alarmed the servant girl. Thinking 

 the shaking noise was occasioned by the return of her husband, who had 

 been out upon some business, the servant went to look, and was surprised 

 to find that no one had entered. As the house stands in close proximity 

 to the railway, and is frequently shaken by the motion of passing trains, 

 this violent agitation of the door and windows was at the time attributed 

 to this cause. Shortly after midnight, when this lady had retired to rest, 

 she states that she heard a peculiar and rushing sound, as if of hail or rain 

 being forcibly driven against the windows. Many persons supposed there 

 must have been a serious explosion of gunpowder somewhere, and one gen- 

 tleman says, " I was sitting reading on the ground-floor at the time, and 

 my chair quite shook under me." The shock does not appear to have been 

 attended with serious consequences of any kind. 



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REVIEWS. 



Notes on the Geology and Mineralogy of the Provinces of Spanish 

 Santandar and Madrid. By W. K. Sullivan, Ph.D., and J. P. 

 O'Reilly, C.E. Loudon : "Williams and Norgate. 1863. 



As very little is generally known of Spanish geology, every contribution 

 that makes us better acquainted with what must be an interesting country is 

 more than usually acceptable. The volume before us is composed of papers 

 originally printed in the ' Atlantis ' (vol. iv.), and relates chiefly to minerals 

 and mining-matters. It is, however, abundantly illustrated with maps, views, 

 and sections, and gives a good deal of information of the stratified deposits 

 of the district between the Bay of Santandar and the river Deva. It com- 

 mences with an outline sketch of the physical geography of the province 



