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XI. 
Mr. Henry Baker F. R. S. to Martin Folkes, 
Efq\ Pref. of the Royal Soc. concerning the 
fa?ne . 
Read March 8. yt BOUT 40 Minutes after 5* o’Clock 
*/49 5 0 - thi S Morning I was waked our of 
a found Sleep by a great Noife, hardly to be de- 
fcrib’d, but what feem’d then to me as if the Roof 
of the Houfe was tumbling in, or like the rumbling 
I have fometimes heard Thunder make before a very 
loud Clap. It continued 2 or 3 Seconds, as nearly 
as I couldjguefs, under the Surprize of being awaked 
fo luddenly; during which time the Windows rat- 
tled, the Tables, Chairs, and other Furniture in the 
Room, (hook greatly ; and a brafs Warming-pan, in 
particular, that flood upon a marble Slab before the 
Chimney, made a very remarkable ringing and jar- 
ring Noife. 
Two Maids, in a Room over mine, were alfo 
wak’d by it, and got up immediately, being frighted 
by the (baking of the Bed on which they lay; but 
for my own part I felt little or no Motion of my 
own Bed. However, as mod People who were in 
Bed agree in deferibing fuch a Motion, it was pro- 
bably that which wak’d me, tho’ the Violence of it 
might be over, before I was fufficiently awake to 
take due notice of ir. 
My Son was likewife wak’d by the great rattling 
of the Windows in his Chamber, which he at firft 
imagined to be fhaken by a high Wind, they being 
apt to make fome Noife in windy Weather, tho’ 
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