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out any rain, and fwelled our lake of Ncufchatel to 
the height of near two feet above its natural level, 
for the fpace of a few hours. Some time before 
nine, three weeks after the earthquake, we had con- 
tinual rains and florms, generally from north-weft, 
the air very mild, which is not ufual at this feafon 
amongft us. 
The <?th of this month we felt a much more fe- 
vere fhock of an earthquake. It happened a little 
before three o’clock in the afternoon, with a vibra- 
tory motion from weft to eaft ; another from eaft to 
weft, and a third from weft to eaft again. The 
ftove in our fervants room was thereby fplit in feveral 
places. Some chimnies fell in at Cudrefin ; the bell 
in the tower at Morat rung two ftrokes j but no 
other misfortune has happened, which I have hither- 
to heard of. The (hock was feverer in lofty places 
than it was in low grounds. The lake of Morat, 
immediately after the earthquake, funk three inches, 
and remains ftill in the fame depreffion. The fame 
earthquake was felt the fame day, at the fame hour, 
at Bafil, Berne, Fribourg, Geneva, and all over Swif- 
ferland ; as likewife at Befan9on in France. Whe- 
ther it extended itfelf any farther is not yet known. 
This kind of phaenomenon being unufual in this 
country, and its dangerous effedts having been newly 
heard of from Portugal and Spain, all our inhabit- 
ants were much alarmed, and apprehenlive of fome 
other great misfortune in other countries. 
Immediately after the earthquake, from frofty 
weather, we had ever fince a damp and mild air, 
great fogs, and to-day plenty of fnow. It has been 
obferved, that thefe three years fucceftively the inha- 
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