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thrown down, and was then breaking thro’ the 
Tiles and Lathing of his Houfe. 
I fent a Servant oat about 7 o'Clock, and he met 
a Countryman, who was bringing a Load of Hay 
from beyond Highgate , and who was on the other 
Side of the Town when the Shock happen’d ; he 
did not, hefaid, feel it, as he was driving his Waggon ; 
but that the People he faw in the Town of Highgate 
were all greatly furprifed, faying they had had their 
Houfes very much fhock’d, and that the Chairs in fome 
were thrown about in their Rooms. 
The Chamber I lie in is up two Pair of Stairs 
forwards, and my Bed hands North-Weft and South- 
Eaft. 1 took particular Notice, that there was neither 
Cart nor Coach going by, but that every thing was 
entirely quiet at the Time. 
X. 
An Account of the fame , hy the Rev. Mr. 
Tho. Birch F. R. S. 
&WMarch %.f | ^IS Morning, Thurfday March 8. 
*749-5°. 1749-^0. about 18 Minutes before 
6, according to equal Time, or half an Hour after 
y by the Sun, I felt, in my Bed-chamber, on the 
fecond Story of my Houfe in NorfolkSutzt, adjoin- 
ing to the River, a Shock of an Earthquake, much 
ftronger, and of longer Duration, than that^which 
1 had felt on Thurfday Feb. 8. 1 was full awake, 
and had juft be^un to drefs mvfelf, when I was 
alarm'd with the trembling of the Room, attended 
with 
