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On the other hand I have met with a great many different fan- 
cys and conjedures, according to the different circumftanccs of 
thofe that were then got up, and thofe that were not. 1 found by a 
great many eoquirys that the latter had various imprcifions, ac- 
cording to the pofition cf their beds to a wall on this or that 
fide, and that out houfes allways feemed to receive the (haking 
from thofe that were adjoyning, that people walking perceived ic 
not in the fame grounds, in which thofe that were worki.ig or 
ftanding ftili did feefic plainly , that in fome grounds, (as thofe be- 
hind St. Giles) the (haking Was perceived and not the fonnd. i 
have heard alfo of fome perfons deceived by the fight, which made 
them fancy it came from that part^ which was oppoiite to them, 
andfo to glance as their eyes did, the 1 have found a great many 
reports of this nature falfc, by enquireing of thofe perfons, upon 
whom fuch obfervations have been fathered. 
In (hort, I found fo hard a task in occurring to different imagina» 
tions and circumftanccs, that 1 ftiouid fcarcely have finiflied this 
relation, if it had not been to approve my feif, 
SIR? 
Your humble Servant 
r H 0. F I G 0 
POSTSCRIPT. 
Since the flownefs or other employment of the Frefs has put hAch^jour 
Tranfaftions/or September to the Utter en^ of October, Jfhall 
take notice <3/<i?^o?^^r Earthquake far more conjiderahle then this which I 
have defcrlhci^^ upon all accounts'^ it happened OB,g, about a ii, at night 
and was in Oxford Mrc northwards verj much, fome faj the)' felt it 
here. It fpred over all the midland Count js^ and extended into "Dtxh^ 
fhire, inwhich^ as in the coal countrjs it 'was verj violent. They report 
that it was in all its fever al places at the fame timCy not determining 
precifeljj and that it produced fome remarkable effe^s. But this is a 
fubje5i which deferves a large defcription^ with which J hope that fome 
perfon of jour acquaintance will olVge us. 
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