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fhock feem’d to me to be nearly the fame with that 
of the 8th of February, but not fo great as that of 
the 8th of March, in that year 5 and the courfe of it, 
as far as I have been enabled to judge, not only from 
my own obfervation at the time, but from the ac- 
counts of others, feem’d to be nearly from fauth-weft 
to north-eaft, it being felt the ftrongeft in the flreets 
which run in that direction ; particularly in Stone- 
gate, where I lodge ; in Mary-gate, and Lopp -1 ane 5 
in the latter of which, I was told, that a chamber- 
bell, in a gentleman’s houfe, was heard to ring very 
diftin&ly ; and a gentlewoman of my acquaintance, 
in a flreet, which runs parallel to thefe, who was very 
weakly, and was fitting up after a lying-in, was al- 
moft thrown forwards out of her chair by the fhock. 
As I have no great correfpondence in this county, and 
am, moreover, going to leave it in about a fortnight’s 
time, I fear I fhall not be enabled to trace out the ex- 
tent of this fhock ; tho’ I am inform’d, it was felt 
very fenfibly at Foforth, Bifhopthorpe, Huntington, 
and Hefslington, fmail towns at two or three miles 
difiance from this city j and alfo at Selby, about ten 
miles to the fouthward of York. If you fhould think 
this account worth communicating to your illuflrious 
Society, you are entirely at liberty fo to do ; and I 
beg you would believe, that I am, with the utmofi fin- 
cerity and refpeft, Sir, 
Your and their 
moft obedient humble fervant, 
York, April 21, 
J754 ' David Erfkine Baker, 
P.S, 
