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VII .An Account of the Jeveral Earthquakes 
which have happen’d in New-England, jince 
the firjl Settlement of the Englifli in that 
Country , efpecially of the lajl, which happen’d 
on O&ob. 29, 1727. Communicated to the 
Royal Society £jPaul Dudley, Effa F.^S. 
in a Letter to the Secretary. * 
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SIR , Roxbury, Nov. 13, 1717. 
Y OU will doubtlefs from the publick Prints 
have an Account of the terrible Earthquake 
that happen’d here on the 29th of Ottoffer lafl in 
the Night j however, I think it my Duty, and hope 
it will be acceptable to the Society, to have the Par- 
ticulars from one of their own Members. 
That this Country is fubjed. to Earthquakes is 
certain ; and we have been often admoniihed of it 
fince the firft Settlement of the Englijh here, which 
now is about an hundred Y ears. Our printed Books 
and other good Records have taken notice of the 
mod remarkable that have happen’d. The firft and 
moft confiderable Earthquake that I find in our 
Hiftory, and which feems to have been much like 
our laft, was on the Second of June, 1638. This 
is faid (by the Author, who was a Gentleman of 
Character and Probity) “ to have been a great and 
* See likewife an Account of this fame Earthquake in TranfaFU 
N 0 409. p. 1 24, 
fearful 
