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meteor, and fome remarkable alteration in the air. 
Such alterations have been obferved at the time of 
tire late earthquakes. Who knows, whether an elec- 
trical force be not capable of moving above a quarter 
of our globe ? I have communicated this notion to 
father Beccaria, and I found him almoft intirely con- 
vinced of it. 
1 did not feel the earthquake of the 1 ft of Novem- 
ber lad. I was then on the road going from Milan 
to Verceil. There was in the air fomething harfh, 
which incommoded me in a particular manner. The 
wind was fouth, and not ftrong. There was no 
cloud in the Iky j but, from early in the morning to 
the evening, the air, especially to the fouth, was, as 
it were, charged with dud. About two hours be- 
fore fun-let, 1 obferved the clouds, which formed 
a band, which extended from the fouth to the wed, 
and even farther. Thele clouds, at fird, appeared 
not very thick, and a little railed above the Moun- 
tains. After fun-let they appeared very thick, white, 
and near the furface of the earth. 
I was informed afterwards, that on the fame day, 
about half an hour after eleven in the morning, there 
was felt at Milan an earthquake. The iron rods, 
upon which hung the chandeliers of the church of 
Dome, and thofe of other churches, received an os- 
cillatory motion, which they kept for a long time. 
The waters of canals and lakes role above their banks, 
like the water in veffels put into motion. No noife 
was heard in the houfes, nor was any (hock per- 
ceived. 
This earthquake, of the id of November, was 
not felt at Turin. A thermometer of Monf. de 
Reaumur was, at feven in the morning, at 6 degrees 
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