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ExtraB 0/ L E T T E R X. 
From Oporto, dated i, 175" f. 
Read Nov. 27. T X T E have been greatly alarmed to- 
1755* V V by an earthquake; the (hock 
was fo great that really it was terr hie : we all ran 
into the llreet, the churches were alfo deferted, and 
every body feemed frightened oat of their fenfes, as 
if they thought the world was at an end ! It be- 
gan about ten o’clock in the morning, and continued 
ten minutes; but, thank Gcd, I do-not hear of any 
confiderable damages done ; which, confidering the 
violent manner in which the houfes were fhaken, and 
the continuance of it, is very providential. God 
grant it may have a proper effeft on the minds of 
all. It was equally felt on the river, and, I am told, 
was rather more in Villa Nova, and in Gaya ; and 
two Brazil fhips, that had juft got over the bar, were 
all at once forced into the harbour again, and very 
narrowly efcaped being loft. 
ExtraB 0/ L E T T E R XL 
From Oporto, by the JFeJiern, Captain Knowler, dated 
Novem. i, 17 yy- Commiimcated by Theodore 
Jacobfon, Efq, F. R. S. 
Read Nov. 27, 
1755 - 
I Was never fo alarmed in my life, as 
this morning, between nine and ten 
o’clock, when we were all at breakfaft : the houfe 
began 
