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on and near Roseberry Topping, North-East Yorkshire, more 
especially on the Thinnfeldia beds. A careful search was made 
for the reproductive structures of Thinnfeldia, and this was re- 
warded by the discovery of numerous associated seed-like bodies, 
the structure of which has yet to be investigated, and which 
may, perhaps, prove to belong to this plant. A new example 
of a W illiamsoniella flower-bud was found, which is of interest 
in greatly extending the range of this form. Some fruits and 
seeds, probably referable to the provisional genus Caytonia , 
were also discovered, though they w'ere previously known only 
from Gristhorpe. One or two new forms were found, and many 
duplicates of the more interesting species were collected. It 
is not proposed to continue field-work and collecting in the 
future on the sanie scale as during the past three years until 
the existing collections have been fully investigated. 
A HORXSEA ‘ EARTHQUAKE ’ IN 1733. 
The following is taken from a rare Broadside dated 1 733, 
which we have recently obtained. It is headed ‘ A more 
particular Account than what has yet been published, of the 
terrible Earthquake that happened at Hornsey near Hull in 
Yorkshire.’ It begins, ‘ I Have herewith sent you a true and 
melancholy Relation of a Terrible Earthquake, that befel us 
on Sunday, December the 2 yd, 1733, which was also attended 
with several very terrible Claps of Thunder and excessive 
Lightning, and laid our Town of Hornsey level with the 
earth ’ Needless to say there is no evidence for any such 
earthquake, the narrative being probably based on an account 
of the effects of coast erosion of which its writer had heard. 
AND ITS EFFECTS. 
‘ Alas ! No Tongue or pen can express the extreme Horrors 
of so sudden an Alarm. Our whole Town almost was at once 
laid flat with the ground. We felt a small shock about the 
1 gth of December, attended with a rumbling Noise, succeeded 
by another the day following, which was the Forerunner of the 
destruction of our Town three days afterwards. Bit as God 
would have it, no more than two Men lost their Lives, but 
upwards of 100 Horses, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, etc., were swallowed 
up in the Bowels of the Earth ; about half a quarter of a Mile 
on the South Part of the Town stood a Farm House unoccupy’d, 
which was entirely swallow’d up, so that not a Stone thereof 
was to be seen. A small Hog-Stye, with some Pigs in it. 
together with a Part of the Backside of a House remote from 
the Town, belonging to one Farmer Goding, were likewise 
swallow’d up, and the dwelling-house which stood at some 
Distance, remain’d unhurt. Our Church was rent in two 
and at last laid flat with the other ruins ; but what is very 
remarkable tiled (sic) last Shock began not above an Hour 
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