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The People in all the Streets, as I returned home,, 
were talking of this Matter; and fome of the Wo- 
men complaining that the Motion had made them 
fick. 
My own Family, in Catherine -ftree't in the Strand > 
had been no Ids ftirprrfcd, and had fent to the Neigh- 
bours to inquire if feme heavy thing had fallen down, 
to occafion the Shaking of the Houfc, which Mrs. 
Baker deicribed as very great ; She fat in the Dining- 
Room, which is to the Street, and her Belief at the 
Inftant was, that the Servant was fallen all along in 
the backward Room of the next Story higher, thereby, 
fha king the Houfc, and making a confiderable Noifc. 
My Son felt the fame Shock at the To-jaer ; where 
alfo a Gentleman, who was fitting at a Table to 
write, in his Houle in the Mint, was thrown out 
of his Chair with a confiderable Force towards the 
Tab e; and where every Bpdy was much (hock’d 
with the x\pprehenfion of fome Explofion of Guiir 
powder. < • . t 
What therefore fo many People, in different 
Streets, at great Difiances from each other, have 
been furprifed at, cannot be only Fancy, but muff 
be owing to fome real Caufe ; and if no Powder- 
Mid, or Magazine of Powder has been blown up, 
it muft have been an Earthquake, or l'ome Tremor 
of the Earth itfelf. 
I was pretty curious to inquire of People in dif- 
ferent Places, to judge the better from their feveral 
Reports; and I found them agree, almoft in gene- 
ral, in the tirft Suppofitron of fome weighty Body 
falling; mod faid with a Noifc, but fome feemed 
uncertain as to that. I cndeavout’4 likewiic to 
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