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hear the clafhing nolfe made by all the candles hung 
up in his fhop. 
This is all that I have any certain information of, 
and it Ihews, that our country had fome lhare in 
the general agitation. Many other things are reported, 
but not fufficiently attefted. 
The accounts brought from Norway inform us, 
that the fame obfervations were made there, almoft 
at the fame time. ' 
LIX. An Account of the Earthquake^ No- 
vem. I, 1755, as felt in the Lead Mines 
in Derbyfhire ; m a Letter from the Re- 
verend Mr. Bullock to Lewis Crufius, 
D. D. F. R. S. 
LETTER I. 
gjj. Afliford, near Bakewell, Dcrbyfhire, Mar. 3, 1756. 
Read March II, fjere fend you an account of the 
*756- earthquake, which happened at the 
lead mines on Eyam-edge in the peak of Derby- 
ihire, on Saturday the iff of Novem. 1755, ^hout 
1 1 o’clock in the forenoon. I made a ftrid inquiry 
at the mines, on the 2 ift of February laft, both for 
my own and your fatisfadlion j and can aflure you, 
that the circurnftances related may fafely be relied 
upon as matter of fad. If there be any thing in 
my power, which you would chufe to have explained 
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