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our fears, t He Earthquake having lafted but about 
i 2 minutes, without doing any other damage than 
throwing down and breaking fome earthen ware here 
and there. Upon my return home, I found my books 
tumbled off the fhelf and lying on the ground, 
as did likewife my ink-bottle that flood upon the 
table. As the fhaking of the houfes was oblerved 
to be from Eaft to Weft, it is to be conjectured that 
the direction of the Earthquake, or rather the kind- 
ling of the lubterranean combuftible matter, was from 
South to North, as fome pretend to have exprefly 
obferved. Juft as the poft is going out, we have an 
account that this Earthquake was felt at Fortin 
Glouchowfkoi, as alfo at the Redoubt of Pj a nojar Ik,., 
with the fame circumftances, and at the fame time,, 
as here. 
Fort Jamifcheff, on the banks of the Irtifch, 460 
verfts from Uft Kamenogorfki, Dec. 3. 1761. 
The Poft from Sempolat, and other places higher 
up the Irtifch, as likewife that which is come in at the 
fame time from the Line of Koliwan, having brought 
us an account of a violent Earthquake that was felt 
on the 28 th of laft month, not only on the line of Irtifch 
from Uft Kamenogorfki, but likewife on thofe of 
Kufnets’k and Koliwan, we muft credit the obfer- 
vations made Here, by numbers of people, of an 
Earthquake on the 28th of November between 7 
and 8 in the Evening, which, tho’ it Lifted near 1 2 
minutes, was fo flight as not to occaflon the lead; 
damage, but only a gentle motion hardly to be 
felt. 
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