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above, its extent, in a direction toward the S. S. E. 
mud have been at lad 1 900 miles. 
I fhall now proceed to mention the principal 
effects of this earthquake, for which I can find fuf- 
ficient vouchers; for many drange things have been 
related, which, upon examination, appear to be 
without foundation. Befides the throwing down of 
glafs, pewter, and other moveables in the houfes, 
many chimnies were levelled with the roofs of the 
houfes, and many more fhattered, and thrown down 
in part. Some were broken off feverat feet below 
the top, and, by the fuddennefs and violence of the 
jerks, canted horizontally an inch or two over, fo 
as to dand very dangeroufly. Some others were 
twided, or turned round in part. The roofs of fome 
houfes were quite broken in by the fall of chimnies ; 
and the gable ends of fome brick buildings thrown 
down, and many more cracked. Throughout the 
whole country, the done fences were more or lefs 
thrown down. The vane upon the public market- 
houle in Bodon was thrown down ; the wooden 
fpindle, which fupported it, about five inches in dia- 
meter, and which had dood the mod violent guds 
of wind, being fnapt off. A new vane, upon one 
of the churches in Bodon, was bent at its fpindle 
tvro or three points of the compafs ; and another at 
Springfield, didant about 80 miles wederly from 
Bodon, was bent to a right angle, A didillers cif- 
tern, made of plank, almod new, and very drong put 
together, was burd to pieces by the agitation of the 
liquor in it ; which was thrown out with fuch force, 
as to break down one whole fide of the died, that 
defended the ciftern from the weather 5 as alfo to 
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