W<i8i) _ 
difabled by ficknefs to come over to me (which he promis’d to 
do, as foon as he could) writ me only a Ticket , whofe fubjfance 
was. That the Earth- quake was there much more confiderable, 
than where I lodged, and that at a Gentlemans houfe,whom he 
names (the moft noted Ferfon, it feems,of the neighbourhood) 
the Houfe trembled very much, fo as to make the Stones mani- 
feftly to move to and fro in the Parlour , to the great amaze- 
ment and fright of all the Family. The Hill, whereon this 
Krz7/ l:ands 3 1 have obferv'd to be very well ftor’d with Mineral 
fubftances of feveral kinds $ and from thence I have been in- 
form'd by others 3 that this Earth-quake reach’d a good many 
miles ; but I have neither leafure , nor inclination to entertain 
you with uncertain reports of the Extent and other Circum- 
itances, efpecially fince a little further time an inquiry may en- 
able me to give you a better warranted account. 
Some Obfervatiom and DireEliom about the Barometer, com- 
municated bjthe fame Hand, to the Author of thfc Trad, 
Thefe lhall be fet down , as they came to hand in another 
Tetter i videl. 
As to the Barometrical Qbfervations(as for brevities fake I ufe 
to call them)though you * guefled 
aright 3 that, when I faw thole of * See Num. 9 . of the . Phil, 
the Learned and Inquifitive Dr. Tranfaft* the Uft para- 
Beale 3 1 had not Mine by me 5 ( for 
I left them, fome years fince, in the 
hands of a Virtue fo ^ nor have I now the leafure to look after 
thofe Papers s ) yet fince by the Communication, you have 
made publick, 'tis probable, that divers Ingenious men will be 
invited to attempt the like Obfervations, I lhall (notwithftand- 
ing my prefent hafie) mention to you fome particulars , which 
perhaps will not appear unfeafonable, that came into my mind 
upon the reading of what you have prefented the Curious. 
When I did, as you may remember , fome years agoe, p.ub- 
Siekly expreis and defire that fome Inquifitive men would 
B b 2 make 
