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vibration was felt here, lasting, as nearly as I can gather, some fifteen 
seconds, and shaking the doors, windovrs, and beds in this honse with some 
violence. Most curiously, 1 felt nothing of it myself, but several of ray 
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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EEVIEWS. 
JVotes on the Geology and Mineralogy of the Frovinces of Spanish 
Santandar and Madrid. By AV. K. "Sullivan, Ph.D., and J. P. 
O'Eeilly, C.E. Loudon : Williams and Norgate. 18G3. 
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 tlian usually acceptable. The volume before us is composed of papers 
originally printed in the ' Atlantis ' (vol. iv.), and relates chiefly to mmerals 
and mining-matters. It i8,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 Dev^a. It com- 
mences with an outline sketch of the physical geography of the province 
