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moment, that there were new ones. The rattling 
of glafs-windows was the lead; ambiguous fign. 
China fell down from the chimney- (helves.* The 
difhes in kirchens (truck a gain (l each other. Some 
chimneys were thrown down. Seveial walls cracked,., 
and l'ome arched roofs were damaged. 
In our neighbourhood there happened no worfe 
accidents than thefe. At Aix la Chapelle, a woman 
was crufhed to death by the falling of a chimney. 
Two houfes, which joined, were feparated. The 
waters, it is faid, acquired more (Length, as happened 
at the end of the lad century. This is what I will net 
anfwer for the truth of, not having received fufficier.t 
information in that refpedt. 
At two leagues diltance from Stolberg there was 
formed an opening of about twenty feet long, and 
feveral feet deep, from which, it is affirmed, there 
arofe thetwofirft days (linking vapours : but it tilled 
up of itfelf, and is now almoft intirely clofed. This 
is the fad, which has been fo much exaggerated in 
the Gazettes. 
My father-in-law was curious tojtnow, what was 
the effedt in the mines of Houille, in the country of 
Liege ; and this is the account, which he received as 
what might be depended upon. 
In a mine of 900 feet depth, the workmen were 
fitting at breakfafl on the 1 8th of February. Of a 
fudden they were puffied violently one againft ano- 
ther, fo that they thought, that fome of them were 
at play : but feeing, that thofe, who fat alone, were 
ffiaken in the fame manner, they ran to ring the 
alarm-bell. The overfeer called out to them from 
above 
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