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Treille and felt nothing. People are not abfolutely 
agreed concerning the direction of the motion. The 
greateft part of them reprefent it to have been from* 
north to fouth, as it was in the preceding earthquake 
felt here in March 1753, about two in the afternoon, 
in very fine weather likewife j but it was not near fo 
generally felt as this lafl. This of the 9th of De- 
cember was felt at Nion, Merges, Laufanne, Berne, 
Zurich, and perhaps more ftrongly than here. 
An acquaintance of mine, who was then in the 
country, at half a league difiiance from this city, faw 
his garden- wall make three vibrations, and he was 
feized himfelf with a fwimming in the head. 
Three fhocks were in fadt felt within the fpace of 
about a minute. During the firft a noife was heard 
like that of a cart pafiing over a pavement. 
LETTER XXI. 
An Account of the Rarthquake felt at Bofion m 
New-England, Novem. 18, 1755. Communicated 
by John Hyde, f jqy F, R. S. 
Boflon, Novem. 24, 1755. 
ReadMarchiij'^TOvember i8, 1755, being Tuefday, 
about half an hour pafi; four in 
the morning, I was awaked by the {baking of my 
bed, and of the houfe ; the caufe whereof I imme- 
diately concluded could be nothing but an earth- 
quake, having experienced one before. The trem- 
* A pretty high terrace. 
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