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Place. 
Time of be- 
ginning. 
Duration. 
Weather 
and wind. 
Degrees of violence, and 
variety of circumftances. 
(15) The 
Amey of 
Briftol, fome 
leagues off 
fhore from 
Lilbon, lat. 
43* 
Three quar- 
ters paft ele- 
ven A. M. 
Ten minutes 
A. M. 
Immediately 
after arofe 
fuch a ftorm 
of wind and 
rain, as he 
never before 
met with. 
Felt a moff violent fhock, 
of which the concuffion 
was fo great, that it fhoolc 
the needle off' the fpindle 
of the compafs. 
(16) Lifbon. 
At noon, 
and at twelve 
P. M. ano- 
ther Ihock. 
t 
k i 
Between 
three mi- 
nutes, fome 
fay feven mi- 
nutes. 
That at mid- 
night of (hort 
continuance. 
1 
Next morn- 
ing great 
fogs. 
The fhock, thought by 
fome to be as violent as 
that of 1755, but the agi- 
tation more equable.” By 
others reckoned a fevere 
(hock, not fo ftrong as 
that of 1755, but of longer 
duration. “ Ruins of the 
laft earthquake fell heap 
upon heap ; rocks on the 
oppofite fide [viz. of the 
Tagus] fell from the 
mountains ; the water in 
continual agitation all the 
afternoon, ebbing and 
flowing three or four feet 
[high] in a very fhort 
time. Three hundred pri- 
soners escaped out of the 
gaols of the city ; no 
lives loft ; a few old 
houfes fhattered, and 
thrown down ; fome new 
ones cracked. Buildings 
ere£Ied fince 1755 da- 
maged, to the amount of- 
20,000 moidores. 
Place,- 
