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inftead of an Os Tetrofum, have fomething ana- 
logous, but cartilaginous ; and the Auditory Bones 
are of a tartareous kind of friable and eafily macc- 
rable Subftance. 
XL A Journal of the Shocks of Earthquakes 
felt near Newbury in New-England, from 
the Tear 1717 . to the Tear 1741. commu- 
nicated in a Letter from the Rev d Mr . Mat- 
thias Plant to the Rev d 2 )r. Bearcroft. 
Read Feb. H. 
1 741-2. 
I 
SIR, 
T may be acceptable, if I give an Ac- 
count of the Earthquake, as I took 
it down precifely at every time I heard it. 
Off. 29. 1727. being the Lord’s-Day, about 40 
Minutes paft Ten the lame Evening, there came a 
great rumbling Noife 5 but before the Noile was 
heard, or Shock perceived, our Bricks upon the 
Hearth rofe up about three quarters of a Foot, and 
feem’d to fall down and loll the other way, which 
was in half a Minute attended with the Noife or 
Burft. The Tops of our Chimneys, Stone-fences, 
were thrown down; and in fome Places (in the 
lower Grounds, about three Miles from my Houfe, 
where I dwell) the Earth opened, and threw out fome 
Hundred loads of Earth, of a different Colour from 
that near the Surface, fomething darker than your 
white Marl in England ; and in many Places, opened 
dry Land into good Springs, which remain to this 
Day ; and dried up Springs, which never came again. 
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