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folves thefe Appearances, of which he had profef- 
fedly wrote. Take it in his own Words. 
“ Arijloteles ( 1 . i. m. m. cx.) docebat quod 
<£ omnis natura ejus fit eflentiar procreatrix, qualis 
<c ip fa eft enimvero funt ad confervationem fpe- 
<£ ciei omnis, ejufdem fmgular particular, vim fe dif- 
<c fundendi obtinuerunt, et fpargendi, per individua 
“ multiplicata, ita ne lux primaeva et naturalis, fin- 
<c gulari numinis confilio, elementorum mixtioni 
<c addita, mole minor intercidat, et extinguatur cum 
“ fpeciei non revocando cafu, eo modo confcrvari 
tc debuit, quo ferventur omnia, per infitam naturas 
“ potentiam fui generativam, <&c” 
IV. A Letter from the Revere?id Mr. 
John Forfter to Mr. Henry Baker F.R. S. 
concerning an Earthquake at Taunton. 
Read June infwer to your Inquiries concern- 
laft Year on the firft Day of July , when I was at 
Taunto?i in Somerfetjhire , after taking fome Pains 
to inform myfelf more particularly what other Peo- 
ple obferved in different Places, you may depend 
on the Truth of what follows. 
Between Ten and Eleven o’ Clock at Night, on 
the faid firft Day of July 1747. being myfelf in fome 
Company at Taunton , we were fuddenly furprifed 
with a rumbling Noife like diftant Thunder, which 
was followed immediately by fo confiderable a 
SIR, 
ing the Earthquake, which happen’d 
Motion 
