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ably fair and ferene^ as was the former part of the 
day on which it happened : but the afternoon was 
very dull and dark,, the iky being intirely overcaft 
with heavy black clouds r the fubfetjuent day was 
very fair. 
The grcateft height of the thermometer the three 
laft days in Odober, and on the firft of November, 
(the day of the earthquake) was — 69^ 
November the fecond it rofe to 7 ^ 
The barometer had been ftationary Several? ^ 
days, at — — j 
November the fecond k rofe to ■ — . ^ 
In the northern part of this ifland the inundation 
has been more violent, the fea there retiring at firlt 
above a hundred paces, and fuddenly returning, over- 
flowed the fliore, deflroying or damaging feverai 
houfes and cottages, forcing open doors, and break- 
ino- down the walls of feverai flores or magazines,, 
and carrying away in its recefs a confiderable quantity 
of grain, Above two hundred pipes of wine are 
computed to be loft on this occafion j great quanti- 
ties of fifli were left on the ihore, and in the ftreets 
of the village of Machico. All this has been the ^ 
effedl of one foie undulation of the fea, it never 
flowing afterward fo high as high water mark,^ al- 
though it continued flu^uating much longer there, 
before it fubfided, than here at Funchal, as the fluc- 
tuation and fwell was much greater here than it had 
been farther to the weftward, where in fome places it 
has been hardly, if at all, perceptible. 
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