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ExtraSl 5/ L E T T E R VI. 
From Cranbrook i?2 Kent, to William Tempeft, 
F, R. S. 
Nov. 7. 1755. 
Read Nov. 1 3, T | ARE people here are very much 
A alarmed on account of an earth- 
quake, which happened lalf Saturday, (Nov. the ift). 
i felt nothing of it, but fome people fancied they did. 
I do not hear, that the earth moved ; only the waters 
of feveral ponds, in this and the adjacent pariflies, 
were in fuch motion, that they overflowed their 
banks, and then returned back, and overflowed the 
other fide. 
ExiraSf ^LETTER VII. 
Communicated by John Pringle, M, D. F. R. S. 
Read Nov. 20, 
> 755 - 
Chevaiing, in Kent, Nov. 16, 1755. 
T H E accounts from Portfmouth, 
and other places, about the agita- 
tion of the water, I now more readily believe, as the 
fame thing has happened at Tunbridge-town, in the 
river there, and in a pond at a place, a few miles 
from hence, called Eaton-bridge ; the particulars of 
which were told to one of our fervants by an eye- 
witnefs. 
The pond is about an acre in fize, and acrofs it is 
a poll; and rail, which is almofl: quite covered by the 
water. Some people heard a noife in the water, and 
imagining fomething had tumbled in, ran to fee what 
was the matter; when, to their furprize, they faw the 
water 
