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The next Thing I proceed to is the Degree or 
Greatnefs of the Shake. This will be beft known 
from its Effeds. I have already mention’d the 
falling of the Tops of Chimnies, DiJhes from 
Shelves, China W are, Doors unlatched, Bells 
jangling, Eeds trembling, Chairs moving, &c. A 
Country Farmer tells me, he had forty or fifty 
Rods of Stone Wall thrown down by it : And 
though I acknowledge thefe Effeds are not very 
confiderabie, yet I cannot but be- of opinion, that 
©ur Earthquake for its Species was as violent and 
terrible as any we meet with in Hiftory : And had 
the Tremor continued a Minute longer, or been re- 
peated in the like Degree, our Houles had doubtlefs 
been many of them overthrown. One of my 
Neighbours that was walking home at the very In- 
flant, tells me, the Noife firft brought him to a hand, 
and that during the Shake, the Earth trembled fo 
under him, that he was fo far from attempting to 
continue his Walk, that it was as much as he could 
do to keep upon his Legs, and expeded every Mo- 
ment the Earth would have open’d under him. 
Another that was riding home, fays, that upon the 
Noife the Earthquake made, his Horfe flood flock 
flili, and during the Shake, trembled to that degree, 
that he thought he would have fell under him. Our 
Houfe-Dogs were alfb feofible and affeded with the 
Earthquake ; fome of them barking, others howling, 
and making flrange and unufual Noifes. Nor was our 
Earth only affected with this Shake, but the Sea alfo 
in our Harbours, and our Shipping final! and great 
much moved with it. I don’t fhppofe it ever hap- 
pens that Earthquakes of this kind, of any Extent, 
