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I have, befides this, made Inquiry of various Pcr- 
fons, and cannot meet with one, who did Ice any 
Lightning, or who heard others fay that they had 
feen it. 
e P. S. I am credibly informed, that a Gentleman’s 
Servant at JVandfworth was watering his Maher’s 
Horfe by the River-Side, at the time when the 
Earthquake happened, who found the Water 10 
much agitated on a hidden, that the Horfe ftartcd 
back, and would not drink. 
XXIV. 
The Rev. W. Stukely M. D. R R S to the 
Prelident, on the Caufes ^Earthquakes *. 
Read March 22 ’TIJHEN fo great and unufual a 
U 49* V V Rhanomenon as an Earthquake, 
and that repeated, happens among us, it will natu- 
rally excite a ferious Kefk&ion in every one that is 
capable of thinking j and we cannot help conftder- 
ing it in a philofophical as well as religious View. 
Any Mind will take the Alarm, when we perceive 
a Motion that aflfedts the Earth, that bears the 
who.e City of London , and fome xMiles round j and 
at the fame time, whilft it gives us fo fenfibie a 
Shake, lb gently lets us down again, without Da- 
mage to any Buildings, and without a Lite loll. 
In the Works of Nature and Providence there 
are no Degrees of Great and Little: Companions 
are incompatible ; neverthelefs we ourfelvcs are 
N n n n more 
* This Paper is published ieparately by the Author, in a Pam- 
phlet, at Londovy 1750. tn 8 vo. 
