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^like broken in by the fall of the chimhles : fome 
pumps fuddenly dried upj the convulfions of the 
earth having choaked the fprings that fupplied them, 
or altered their courfe. Many clocks were alfo 
^flopped by being fo violently agitated. 
Thefe are the moft confiderable effedts of the 
^earthquake, which have fallen under my obfervation ; 
for the fhaking of pewter, from the fhelves feems 
hardly worth mentioning after them. 
It is faid earthquakes are ufually preceded and fol- 
lowed by a great noife, which feveral fay they heard 
-with this ; but myfelf did not perceive any noife in 
.this inftance, which I could take to be dkfindl from 
.the concuflion and rattling of the things upon tlie 
furface of die earth, added to the roaring of the fea, 
which roaring had been fomcthing greater than is 
ufual for feveral days before. 
Some perfons likcwife fpeak of obferving a glim- 
niering light at the beginning of the (hock, which 
lafted for fome time. But I have no remembrance 
•of this, though I obferved with care, and now en- 
deavour to recoiled! whatever was remarkable re- 
tfpedling a phaenomenon fo unufual in this part of 
the world, and fo juftly terrible in all. 
LETTER 
