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An Account of the Earthquake on Thurfday 
Morning , March 8, *749. as feen in the 
Inner Temple Garden , by Robert Shaw (a 
very fenfble Scotchman) then at Work 
there ; coititnunicated by James Burrow 
Efq> F. R. S. 
Riad March 15. TTE was juft come into the Garden 
1749 FI ( at half an Hour after y), and was 
fc 3 rce arrived at the great Tree, near the little Door 
under Harcoitrfs Buildings (which is about io or 
12 Yards perhaps diftant from Harcourt' s Buildings), 
when he heard a great Noise, louder by much 
than the Noife of the Explofions upon the Proof of 
the Great Cannon at Woolwich , when full-charged 
(at which Proofs he has been often prefent) ; nay 
louder , he thought , than any Noife he ever heard. 
This Noife -fee med to come from behind the Build- 
ings} and his Face was then oppofite to them. 
At the fame Infant he faw the whole Building 
move upwards, then incline forwards towards him 
(fo that he thought it would fall upon him) j then 
recline backwards , and then fettles at which time 
all the Windows rattled and clatter’d , as upon an 
Explofion of a Cannon; the Sound in the Interim 
rolling awa? (feemingiy from the Water -fide up 
towards Temple-Bar) juft like the rolling Sound or 
Echo which accompanies or fucceeds the Explo/ion 
of Thunder, or of Ship Guns. 
As 
