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III. Tart of a Letter from the T^yerend Mr. Ben- 
jamin Colman^ of Bofton in New Eng. 
.landj to the late Sijhop of Peterborough 5 
-giying an Account of the late Earthquake which 
happened there. Communicated by L)r. Jurin. 
% S. S. &c. 
- Bojofty Sept. Si 172.8. 
My Lord, > 
f , ^ 
Y our Lordfhip hopes that fome of our accurate 
Obfervers took Notes of the Symptoms and Inci- 
dents of our late Storms and Earthquake, to communi- 
cateto the Royal Society, for the more critical Enqui- 
ry into the Caufes and EfFeds of this. How much 
Mr. Dudley or Dr. Mather^ the Gentlemen here of 
Learning, who had the Honour to be Fellows of that 
learned Body, may have done this, I know not. The 
Earthquake came fuddenly upon us in the Night after 
the Lord’s Day, OBoh. 29, 17x7, between ten and 
eleven, in a very (fill and fair Evening ; the Stars fo 
bright and glittering, that many had taken great No* 
tice of them, and one or two Perfons that had been in 
Places fubjed to Earthquakes,* had faid tranfiently, 
that if we had been us’d to have ’em, they fliould 
exped one. This only general Symptom of its Ap- 
proach I have heard of, namely, the mod ferene Sky 
and calm. Air that was ever known, not a Cloud in 
the Sky, nor fcarce a Breath of Wind. And though 
this is not univerfally a Symptom when Earthquakes 
are 
