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really yefterday, from the repeated tremours of the 
ground, every one appeared giddy and alarmed, fan- 
cying the earth to be in perpetual vibration, which 
however an experiment of a glafs of water upon the 
floor by no means admitted of. I would not that 
fuch a fhock as the firft fhould happen at Calcutta for 
all I am worth, flnce of neceflity the terrafled houfes 
muft fall to ruin, and I pleafe myfelf with the thoughts, 
that we have had the worfl: of it. 
Chittigong, April 4, 1762. I am, &C.” 
Copy of the Paper mentioned in the foregoing letter. 
Chittigong, April 2, 1762. 
a * ' C P. M. a fevere fhock of an earth- 
April 2 at 5 quake lafted + minutes _ 
512a fecond lafted one minute. 
530 a third. 
7 o a fourth, 
o a fifth. 
o in the morning of the 3d, a fixth. 
o a feventh. 
o an eighth, 
o a ninth. 
10 25 a tenth. 
10 30 an eleventh. 
Between 6 and 7 in the evening I felt a twelfth 
{hock j alfo others upon Marriet’s hill, at a diftance 
from mount Pleafant, which every one thought in 
continual motion. 
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