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likewife Teen at Alloa, another fea-port town about fix- 
teen miles higher on the Frith; but as lie had received 
no certain account of thatcircumftance, he could not 
anfwer for the truth of it. He concludes with faying, 
that, fo far as he could be informed, there was no 
fenfible agitation of the fea any-where on the coaft 
of Fife; though great part of that county lies upon 
the Frith, and abounds with inhabitants on the coaft, 
who might have made the obfervation. 
The other paper is an extrad of a letter from 
Mr. Reimarus, profeffor of the oriental languages 
at Hamburgh, to his fon, Mr. Reimarus, at prefent 
ftudent of phyfic in this place. This laft gentle- 
man wrote to his father, at my requeft, in order to 
have an authentic account of what we read in the 
publick papers, concerning the motion of the can- 
dlefticrks in the churches, and the agitation of the 
waters in and about that city on the firft of Novem- 
ber laft. I am, 
S I R, 
Pall-mall, 1 8 Mar. 
1756. 
Your moft obedient 
humble fervant. 
John Pringle. 
SIR, 
Read Mar. 18, /k Bout ten o’clock of the forenoon, 
1 ?5 6 - on the firft day of November, 
to the beft of my remembrance, being then on the 
pier at Queen's-ferry, I obferved the water to rife 
4 A 2 very 
