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at the fame inftant to the extent of above a thoufand 
verfts *. The inaccuracy of this account, and the 
omiffion of minute circumftances, muft be imputed 
to thefe people’s being unaccuftomed to make or 
defcribe any obfervations. However we fhall relate 
it fuch as it is. 
From Fortin Nowikowfki, the laft but one on 
the line of Kufnetfk, to the Eaftward. 0 £t. 
24, 1761. 
The day before yefterday, Oft. 2 2d, at one in 
the afternoon, a noife was heard under ground, which, 
tho’ of a fhort duration, was pretty diftindtly obferved 
by the whole garrifon, and particularly by thofe 
whofe houfes ftand without the walls of the Fort. 
This fubterranean noife, whilft it lafted, was attend- 
ed with a trembling of the earth, which only fhook 
the timber-houfes. The next day, at four /in the 
morning, it lightned as in fummer, but this did not 
laft long. 
Fort of the Mines of Koliwan, fituated on the 
Line of the fame name, adjoining to that of 
Kufnetfk, Nov. 30, 1761. 
The 28th inftant, between 7 and 8 in the even- 
ing, we felt an Earthquake, which begun by a fub- 
terranean noife. Its courfe was from Eaft to Weft. 
The fhocks were not fo violent as to do any damage, 
* N. B. A Ruffian Verft is 11664 Englifh yards. 
and 
