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Line parallel with the Waves, will be rocked from 
Side to Side. What makes me the more inclined to 
think the progreffive Motion of this Earthquake to have 
been from Eaft to W eft, is, becaufe it appears from 
the beft Accounts I have yet had of it, that it was 
obferved fooner Eaft than Weftward, and likewife 
extended further from Eaft to Weft than North and 
South. 
It may not be amifs to take Notice of fome remark- 
able Phenomena which happened before and after, as 
well as fome other Circumftances which immediately 
attended this Earthquake, mod of them agreeing with 
thofe Signs which have been obferved by the learned 
to precede or accompany former Earthquakes in thefe 
and other parts of the World. It is obfervable, that we 
have had of late more Rain and W ind for feveral Months 
fucceffively, than for many Years paft 5 efpecially from 
the Beginning to the Middle of this Month, about 
which Time it cleared up, and the Weather became 
fuddenly very cold with frofty Mornings, the Wind 
blowing generally pretty hard from N. W„ On Wed - 
nefday the 23d, the Cold abated conliderably 5 it was 
cloudy, but we had no Rain that Day. The 24th was 
very calm all Day ; it rained moft part of the After- 
noon, though the Mercury ftood at 30^. It con- 
tinued very calm all Night, and rained hard for fome 
time before and after the Earthquake happened 5 but 
it foon cleared up, and we had a ftrong Gale of 
Wind, which rofe within half an Hour, or, as fome 
fay, within a Quarter, afterwards : It continued blow- 
ing hard all the Forenoon. At four o'clock in the 
Morning I obferved the Mercury continued at 30 
Inches 
