194 Mr. pennant’s Account of fever al Earthquakes . 
before ten at night, the noife was fuch as preceded the former ; 
and the (hock fo violent as to (hake the bottles and glades on 
the table round which myfelf and fome company were fitting. 
This feemed to come from the ead. I fee in the Gentleman’s 
Magazine of that year, that this (hock extended to Shropshire, 
and quite to Bath, and to Swanfea in South Wales. 
The earlied earthquake I remember here was on the loth of 
April 1750. It has the honour of being recorded in thePhilo- 
fophical Tranfailions, therefore I (hall not trouble you with 
the repetition of what I have faid. 
Permit me to obferve, that I live near a mineral country, in 
a (it nation between lead mines and coal mines ; in a fort of 
neutral trail, about a mile diflan t from the firfl, and half a 
mile from the lad. O11 the fir idled inquiry I cannot difcover 
that the miners or colliers were ever fenfible of the (hocks 
under ground : nor have they ever perceived, when the (hocks 
in quedion have happened, any falls of the loofe and (hattery 
drata, in which the lad efpecially work; yet, at the fame 
time, the earthquakes have had violence diffident to terrify 
the inhabitants of the furface. Neither were thefe local ; for* 
excepting the fird, all may be traced to very remote parts. The 
weather was remarkably dill at the time of every earthquake 
I have felt. 
I remain,, with true regard, &c» 
