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all things ready for leaving her, then about 50 leagues 
from fhore. 
TheAmey In the latitude 43, not many leagues off fhore, in 
flnpof Bnftol. j ler p a fl~ a g e f r0 m Lifbon, the Amey of Briftol, Capt. 
Condon, felt a moll: violent fhock. The conculfion 
was fo great, that it fhook the needle off the fpindle 
of the compafs ; and immediately after, arofe luch a 
ftorm of wind and rain, as he never before met with. 
The fhock was felt ten minutes A. M. viz. half an 
hour before it was felt at Cork, and five hours before 
the waters rofe at Kinlale, and in Mount’s-bay, on the 
fame day (8). 
Liibon, As the thoughts of all perfons concerned in ob- 
ferving thefe phenomena were immediately turned 
towards Liibon, diftinguilhed by her unhappy fuffer- 
ings, when the fame agitation of land and water hap- 
pened on the firft of November 1755, every one was 
'in pain for that fcarce reviving city j and their appre- 
henlions were not wholly groundlefs; for there was 
a violent earthquake at Liibon, <c thought by fome as 
“ fevere as that of 1755, but the agitation more 
<c equable j” confequently the damages not fo de- 
plorable, no lives loll, a few old houfes fhattered 
and thrown down, and lome new ones cracked ; the 
fhock lafted between three and five minutes (9). 
But more particular is the account following, from 
an eye-witnefs, in an Englifh vefiel then off Lifbon, 
i. e. lying before the city. “ On March the 31ft, at 
“ mid-day, a fevere fhock, not fo ftrong as that of 
tc 1755, but of longer duration. I faw the ruins of 
(8) London Chronicle, p. 426. 
(9) Ibid. p. 390. ' , 
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