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gardener was ftanding by a fifh-pond m the garden, 
he felt a moft violent ^ trembling of the earthy di- 
redtly under his feet, which lafted upwards of fifty 
feconds : immediately after which he obferved, that 
the water in the pond was in a very unufual motion, 
and fuddenly thrown on the op polite fide, leaving 
that, on which he Hood, quite dry for the fpace of 
two yards, and continued in that ftate for two mi- 
nutes, or thereabouts, when it returned as before, and 
colledling in or near the middle of the pond, rofe 
about twenty inches above the level of the water on 
each fide, and continued fo for two minutes in vio- 
lent agitation, which the gardener deferibed to be 
like the boiling of a pot. 
Of the other affair, which happened at Captain 
Clarke’s at Caverfiram in Oxfordlhire, a mile didant 
from Reading, my fifler, who has inquired what the 
effedls of it were there, writes, that Captain Clarke 
was alarmed with a very great noife, as if part of 
the houfe had been falling down : upon examina- 
tion however it did not appear, that the houfe was 
at all damaged j but a vine, which grew againfi; it, 
was broken off, and two dwarf trees (fuch as are 
ufed in efpalier hedges), were fplit by the fiiock* 
She could not learn exactly how long it lafted, but as 
it happened at the fame time as that at Mr. Paunce- 
forfs, it is probable it continued as long as the trem- 
bling of the earth did there, which was near a mi- 
* This is the only account, that mentions any tremor of tJye 
earth to have accompanied the agitation of the waters in this 
ifland : and the next account of the very fame matter, does not 
talce the lead notice of any. 
mite. 
