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vain ; and at a quarter pad: two in the afternoon, the 
barometer was at 29,46; which was lower than it 
had been fince the 15th of Odtober. From thence, 
till the day of the earthquake, my diary {lands thus : 
D. H. 
larom. 
Haukft. 
Therm. 
Nove 
Wind. 
mber 1755. 
Weather. 
Rain.&rc. 
12 74 M 
29,78 
6 3>7 
W 1 
Very fair. Somewhat foggy. 
O 
O 
2$ E 
82 
51.7 
W i 
Fair. 
13 q M 
3 °,H 
68 
N W 2 
Very fair. 
64 E 
2 1 
56,8 
NNWi 
Clear. 
14 84 M 
42 
69,4 
0 
Fair. 
1 1 E 
45 
59 
NE 2 
Very cloudy. 
84 E 
5 
NE 1 
■Clear. 
15 84 M 
4 
74,6 
0 
Cloudy. Hazy. W'hite frofl. 
4 E 
3 2 
60,5 
E 1 
Very fair. 
16 04 M 
27 
70,8 
0 
Foggy. 
2 E 
28 
59,9 
N 1 
Fair. 
,013 
94 E 
3 Z 
N 1 
Fair with clouds. Foggy. 
if 8 M 
3 
7°, 1 
N 1 
Cover’d. Foggy. 
ii E 
27 
59 
E 1 
Very fair. Evens fomewh 1 foggy 
,00 X 
18 44 M 
*7 
74 » 1 
0 
Clear. A violent earthquake. 
8 M 
16 
78 
0 
Very fair. Great white frofl:. 
3t E 
1 1 
58»3 
E 1 
Very fair and hazy. 
,017 
10 E 
08 
69,1 
0 
Clear. Somewhat hazy. 
From this time the barometer rofe till the 20th, 
when, at 8£ M. it was up at 30,44, the fky covered, 
wind N 2. Then it fell till the 23d at 64 E, when 
it was fo low as 28,87; which was lower than it 
hd'd been fince the 6th of February laft. The after- 
noon of the 2 2d, and night following, when wc 
had another {hock, it was calm, and rained 1,205- 
inches. This leads me to obferve, that though the 
ferenity , as well as calmnefs , of the air, is a circum- 
ilance taken notice of in many earthquakes, both in 
this and in other parts of the world; yet it does 
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