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fteamed out by litileand little dayly, when the Sun rcfolving the 
Froll had opened them a pafTage, through which they might gent- 
ly expire, To as tocaufe foms Breezes of wind towards the mid 
time of the day j for the air remaine l bin little difturbed, and the 
weather continued fair until the end of the week, though the 
earthquftke h^pi[iQncd upon monday morning, nor (hall I pretend to 
determine, whether yet they have found any vent or no, tho the 
weekenfuing was very windy and bgyfterous, but I thought my 
felf the rather obliged to take notice of this palfagc, becaufe 1 find 
that a fuddayn change of weather has followed feveral earthifuakes, 
asfor inHance that which happened here Jan. 19. Anno 1655. ac« 
cording to a particular remarque of Mr. Boyle \n the account, which 
I have had occafion to quote before. 
15 For the fame reafon that we have eanhcjuakesmt^o dread- 
ful, as in other countrys, we have them not fo frequent, fome pla- 
ces are fcarce ever free from them, as Seneca faith Calabria i 
fifty feven times in one year they heard of them in %on)e^ fayth 
THny ; nay they have continued many days together. We have 
not had one here before for almoft a fcore of years, except that 
which happened about 4. a clock in the fame morning with the 
laft : w^e have it confidently avouched, that there was fuchaone, 
but being in a manner of the fame nature, and not obferved by me, 
nor much talked of by others, I fhall take no farther notice of it j but 
conclude this obfervation with a remarque concerning earthtjuakes 
in general : That feeing the earth abounds with fuch great varie- 
ty of matter, which may produce them, as alfo with fo many ca- 
verns and chinks of fuch various figures, through which they may 
be agitated with fuch different motions, it feems moreeafy to (hew 
how they may begin, how^ they may be carried on, how they may 
produce fuch different effeds, and how they may continue ; then 
to determine why they (hould happen fo rarely, doe no more mif- • 
chief, or be ftoped fo foon in their motion. 
16 As for t\\\s edrthcfHaka in particular I have fpoken of it ac- 
cording to the bell intelligence, that as yet I have been able to pro- 
cure, from every part of this town, moll: places of the country 
roundit, as well as fome in other countrys, and could have given 
you a great many more paffages and relations, if they had not been 
needle fs as being all to the fame effecfi:. ' I have heard alfo a great 
many flying and idle reports, of Scholars that were then at prayers, , 
runni-ngout of fuch and fuch Chappelsi of more then ordinary cf- ' 
feds m certain houfes, of perfons that hadfeen it moving along 
fome buildings, eroding the ffreet, and fuch like, which have co5 
me the pains of difproving them. On 
