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found that a deep rift or chasm had opened under their 
houses^ and torn them^ as it were, in two ; and that one end 
of the barn had suffered in a similar manner ; that a pond 
near the cottage had undergone a strange reverse, becoming 
deep at the shallow end, and so vice versa; that many large 
oaks were removed out of their perpendicular, some tjirown 
down, and some fallen into the heads of neighbouring trees; 
and that a gate was thrust forward, with its hedge, full six 
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feet, so as to require a new track to be made to it. From 
the foot of the cliff, the general course of the ground, which 
is pasture, inclines in a moderate descent for half a mile, 
and is interspersed with some hillocks, which were rifted in 
every direction, as well towards the great woody hanger as 
from it. In the first pasture the deep clefts began; and 
running across the lane, and under the buildings, made such 
vast shelves that the road was impassable for some time; 
and so over to an arable field on the other side, which was 
strangely torn and disordered. The second pasture field, 
