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lump ftanding in the city, called the burnt pillar, 
declines from the perpendicular^ as a teftimony of 
fome confiderable d>ock. The only memorable one 
I have heard mentioned was. in the year 1719, which 
feemed fo rather from the continuation of fever al 
fhakes for thirty days, than any confiderable dama^ye. 
Some inconfiderable, and fcarce meriting notice, 
I have felt in different feafons ; one very fenfible on 
the il-th of May 17^2, at five in the morning. 
We had an account of a violent earthquake at 
Adrianople that year, on the-ifthof July, at about 
eight p. m. ; that it was attended with uncommon 
fiff.ires and openings of the earth, and eruptions of 
waters, carrying a fulphureous flench. Confiderable 
damage was done to many mofehes and houfes : the 
ruins remain to this day. Leffer fhakes were felt the 
whole month of Augufl. We did not hear, whether 
it extended to the weftward, nor of any particular 
phasnomena preceding it. 
On the fame day and hour we had it very flrong 
at Conflantinople i it lafled fome feconds. I mark’d 
the wind at fouth that morning, and the fpirits in 
the Thermometer at 40 : the mercury in a fmall 
mercurial Thermometer of Bird’s flood at 79. The 
afternoon the wind came about to the E. S. E. a 
flrong gale, which continued during the earthquake. 
Its firfl motion appeared to us perpendicular, and a 
heaving of the houfe, and us, as it were, off of our 
♦ ^ ^ was fucceeded by three or four regular 
momentaneous horizontal vibrations, fo that the walls 
of the houfe receded and returned, like the recipro- 
cal motions of a flfip; and it was with difficulty we 
flood firm. Thefe vibrations we judged had their 
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