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judge the Refult of my Inquiry may be fatisfa&ory 
to any of this honourable Society , I fubmit it to ba 
communicated j and am 
Tooting, March 22, Tour and the Royal Society’.? 
1749-50. ' 
PERSON who went into an open Cart at 4 o' 
Clock that Morning at Mitcham , for London , 
faw no Appearance of Lightning at all. Several 
other Perfons, who were abroad, going to Work, 
fome time before the Earthquake happen’d, declare 
that they faw none ; nor were they fenfible of any 
Noife, or Motion in the Earth. 
I got Inquiry to be made of the Watchmen, who 
belong to the Callico Printers, and watch all Night 
in the Grounds, and received this Anfwer from one, 
that he neither faw any Lightning, nor heard any 
Noife, and had no Perception of an Earthquake; 
and from another, who watched in other Grounds, 
a Mile or more diftant from the firft-mention’d, 
that he faw no Lightning all that Night 5 but fays, 
that he heard an unufual Noife about the Time in 
which the Earthquake is laid to have happen’d ; 
but this it feems was not lo remarkable as to have 
caufed him to take notice of it to any one, had he 
not afterwards been told there was an Earthquake. 
moft obedient and 
mo ft humble Servant , 
H. Miles. 
I have 
