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tice of at our laft Meeting, I prefume therefore to 
fend you the Obfervations I made thereon, as they 
appeared to me at my Houfe in Bloomsbury. 
On Thursday Morning laft, about half an Hour 
after y o' Clock in the Morning, 1 was awaken'd 
by a violent Percuftion of my Bed; the Shocks, I 
apprehend, lafted about 10 or 12 Seconds of a Mi- 
nute; bccaufe my Bed was rock'd from one Side to 
the other feveral times. The Motion appeared to 
me to be in a horizontal Dircftion. I heard no 
Noifc before the Shake; but if any, it might per- 
haps occafion my being fo thoroughly awaken'd. 
My Servants told me they heard a Report like a 
great Blaft of Wind with a Clattering and Snapping 
of the Windows and Doors of the Houfe, as they 
exprefled it. 
In my Dining-Room there was an India Cabi- 
net, on which was placed fome ornamental China , 
Part of which was thrown down on the Floor, and 
fome broke. 
But what, Sir, was mod remarkable, I had two 
China Figures placed on the Cabinet, with their 
Faces fronting the Weft, which were, by the feveral 
Shocks, turned about facing the N. E. which I 
took to be nearly one Third of the Circumference 
of a Circle. In this Situation I found them as foon 
as foon as I arofe in the Morning; and I am af- 
fured nobody had been in the Room before to dif- 
place them. 
Since, I was told by fome Company, that were at my 
Houfe, that a Porter was going down Chancery-Lane 
to call a Gentleman to go to the Brentford Election, 
and, in his Way, as he called it, was ftruck with a 
Blaft 
