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'Phenomenon to have lafted about 3 or at moft 4 
Seconds of Time; and the Shocks appear’d to differ 
from what I had felt on the 8th oflaft Month, in this 
Particular, that I did not now perceive that lifting up- 
wards, andfudden fettling again, which I was then fen- 
fibleofj nor did lhear that diftin&Noife, as of a great 
Weight falling, which moft People were then fur- 
prized with : But what now moft affe&cd me was the 
Senfation of very quick Shakes, or of a Tremor, as it 
appear'd in a horizontal Dire&ion 5 and I heard, during 
ali the time, a fort of Crackling of the Wainfcot, 
Window-Frames, and Floor, with fuch a Rattling in 
the Chimney, as I have fometimes heard upon a hid- 
den and ftrong Gull of Wind. 
I inftantiy jump’d out of Bed, to fee if there was any 
Damage done; and going to my Chamber-Door, I 
met my Daughter running in a Fright from her Room, 
who faid fhe was wak'd with fuch a Shock, that fhc 
thought her Room had been falling; two Men- 
Servants alfo, who lay in the Garret, and whom I 
had called to, anfwer’d me whilft I was talking to my 
Daughter, that they were both wakened by the Shock, 
and that they felt, as they both expreffed it, fuch a Mo- 
tion, as they had fometimes known given to a Child 
in a Cradle. 
Prefently after I had got on my Clothes, I fpoke 
to lome of my Neighbours, who all gave me very 
nearly the fame Account as this I have been juft giv- 
ing of what 1 had obferved myfelf f only fome added, 
particularly a Gentleman who lives in an older Houfe 
than mine, that he apprehended, from a crackling 
Noife over his Head, that a Chimney had been 
thrown 
