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Mr. Henry Baker F. R. S. to Martin Folkes 
Efq\ Prefident of the Royal Society, con- 
cerning the Earthquake felt at London 
Feb. 8, 1 749-50. - : r j • ' 
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Read Feb. 8 , a $ I was walking along Chancery- 
1749 ■ ) ° hane To-day, towards Holbourn-, 
about 40 Minutes part 12 o’ Clock, People came 
out of feveral Houfes to their Doors in great Sur- 
prize, complaining of the fhaking of their Houfes, 
and imputing it to the Fall of fome great Timber, 
or other heavy Body, which they fuppos’d at forive 
little Diflance from them, and which they came out 
to inquire after. - 
When I was got into Holbourn , I found the.Peo- 
ple under the fame Confternation, and expre fling 
themfelves nearly in the fame manner. 
Going to Gray's-Inn, many People were got to- 
gether in the great Square, talking about the Shock 
they had felt ; and in particular a Lamp-lighter was 
giving an Account, that, being on his Ladder, pour- 
ing Oil into a Lamp, he was in Danger of falling off, 
by fomebody’s fhaking the Ladder, as he at firft ima- 
gined. . ' . - 
I then went to a Gentleman’s Chambers under 
Gray's Inn Library, where I was told the Shaking 
had been fo much, that they thought a Clock 
would have been thrown down ; and imagin’d at the 
time, fome large Box or Heap of Books had been 
tumbled down over Head. 
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