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attentively’, to hear if there might be any confequcnt 
Motion or Noife in the Houfe, that I could attribute 
it too ; but on the contrary every thing was quite ftill : 
Upon this I went to the Window, and found a fmall 
Air from the South 5 the dark Cloud was no longer 
to be fecn, but a thin (light Obfcurity in the Air. 
Scarce a Quarter of an Hour pafled, but the Cham- 
ber received a more violent Motion than the former, 
though not to frighten us very much. I obferved 
a Motion in the Candles on the Table from Weft to 
Eaft. We then heard all the Bells in the City; on 
this my Friends and I went out of the Houfe, and 
ftaid abroad till Four Hours. I fmelt the Stink no 
longer, but obferved the Clouds increafing and thick- 
* ening on every Hand, but always with a white Hue, 
like the Circle which is often feen round the Moon, 
but of a prodigious Extent. Every body’s Eyes were 
bufied at this, looking on it as the Forerunner of 
fomething extraordinary, though nobody knew what 
would be the Event. Many asked my Opinion of this 
Novelty: I told them, I had obferved the fame thing 
very often, and that the Confequence was fome- 
times Rain, or Wind, and very often nothing at all: 
In Ihort, I perfuaded them it was nothing out of the 
common way, and did not portend any future Evil, 
as they thought. But returning home a few Minutes 
after Four in the Night, I was got about half way up 
the Steps, when another violent Shock began, far 
fuperior to the two former, which lafted about the 
time one might fay an Ave, Maria ; the Motion was 
hidden, and the fhaking of the Houfe was from Eaft 
to Weft: The Houfe wherein I live being South, 
and I (landing fronting it, daggered twice to the Right 
Hand, 
