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Ordinary Meeting, March 23rd, 1869. 
The Rev. William Gaskell, M.A., Vice-President, in 
the Chair. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., said that he was sitting in 
his dining room, Spring Bank, Crumpsall, reading at the time 
he felt the earthquake on the loth instant. The height of 
his house above the sea would be about two hundred and 
forty feet, and the drift deposits underlying it consist of 
fifty feet of sand and about the same thickness of till or brick 
clay resting on the pebble beds of the trias. His sensation 
of the shock was as if the bed in the room over him had been 
drawn from east to west, and immediately afterwards the 
chair in which he was sitting on the west side of the room 
moved as if the foundations of the house were giving way. 
The shock did not last more than a second. The windows 
in the house rattled, but no one in it besides himself noticed 
the occurrence, which took place about nine minutes past 
six p.m. The feeling he experienced at the last, of the foun- 
dations of the house appearing to give way was extraordinary, 
but the other sensations felt would not have attracted his 
attention, and he is of opinion, that very few people in the 
neighbourhood of Crumpsall would have known it to have 
been the shock of an earthquake had they not been told, or 
seen it described in the newspapers of the following morning. 
He is convinced that the shock would be felt much 
stronger in those houses which were built upon the pebble 
beds at Cliff Point, in Lower Broughton, as was the case at 
the residence of our president, Hr. Joule; the vibrations of 
the bare rock being very different there from what they 
Peoceedings — Lit. & Phil. Society. — V ol. YIII — No. 13. — Session, 1868-9. 
