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are equal or alike in all Places ; and accordingly I 
find by Information from our feveral Towns, that 
the Shake was much more moderate in fome Parts of 
the Country than others. 
The Time and Duration of the Shock Our 
Bofton News-Papers fix the Time at about forty 
Minutes after Ten o’ Clock at Night : My own 
Watch was not lo much by five Minutes ; but the 
Clocks of the Town might be trued. The fird Day 
of November' at Midnight, which was thnse Days 
after the Earthquake, the Moon changed. As to the 
Duration of the Shock itfelf Whatever others 
may print or have printed, 1 can by no means fup- 
pole it exceeded the Space of a Minute, if it was 
io long ; I mean the fird and great Shock ; after 
which in the fame Night we had four or five more 
lefler Tremors ; and at fundry times fince the 
Earth has trembled in different Places (even to this 
13th of November) but without any confiderable 
Effecds or Extent. 
The lad Thing I have to mention is the Courfe 
and Extent of the Earthquake, Bofton , the Metro- 
polis of this Province, lies in the Latitude of 41 Deg. 
z$ Min. North, and 4 Ho. 43 Jviin. to theWedward of 
Jftondon ; as the Longitude between the two Places 
was fettled by Mr .Thomas Brattle of this Country, 
and Mr. Hodgfon of London many Years fince : And 
making Bofton a Center, we have a certain Account 
that our late Earthquake was felt in Kennebeck River 
to the Eadward, and at Philadelphia to the Wed- 
ward, one hundred and fifty Leagues didant one 
from the other upon a W. S> W. and E. N. E. Courfe 
neared : and no Part of the intermediate Country, 
that 
