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The (hock was not equally loud or violent. Its 
extent was from the ifles of Scilly eaftward as far 
as Lifkerd, and towards the north as far as Camel- 
ford ; thro’ which diftrid I (hall trace it, according 
to the beft informations I could procure. 
In the bland of St. Mary, Scilly, the (hock was 
violent. On the fhores of Cornwall, oppofite to 
Scilly (in the parifh of Senan, near the Land’s-end) 
the noife was heard like that of a fpinning- wheel on 
a chamber- floor. Below ftairs there was a cry, that 
the houfe was {baking ; and the brafs pans and pew- 
ter rattled one againft another in feveral houfes in the- 
fame parifh. In the adjoining parifti of St. Juft, two 
young men being then fwimming, felt a ftrong and 
very unufual agitation of the fea. In the town of Pen- 
zance, in one houfe the chamber-bell rung ; in an- 
other the pewter plates, placed edgeways on a fhelf, 
fhifted, and Hid 'to one end of the ftielf : and it was 
every- where perceived more or lefs, according as peo- 
ple’s attention was engaged. 
At Trevailer, the feat of William Veale, Elquire, 
about two miles from Penzance, the noife was heard, 
and thought at ftrft to be thunder : the windows 
fhook, and the walls of the parlour, where Mr. 
Veale fat, vifibly moved.. The jarring of the win- 
dows continued near half a minute ; but the motion 
of the walls not quite fo long : and fome mafons,. 
being at work on a contiguous new building, the up- 
right poles of the fcaffolds {hook fo violently, that,, 
for fear of falling, they laid hold on the walls,, 
which, to their ftill greater furprize, they found agi- 
tated in the fame manner. And a perfon prefent, 
who was at London at the time of the two {hocks in. 
the 
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