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We fee and admire the Effects of ElcClricitv, 
and its ftupendous Properties, every Day ; which 
Teems as it were an animating Soul to Matter. 
The Antients had a Notion that the Earth was a 
great Animal; probably from fome Obfervations of 
Electricity ; but certainly, when in our Days we feel 
thefe unufual and extraordinary Convulftons of Na- 
ture, it is a Leffon to us, to do our Duty toward 
that Great Being, who, by a Drop of Water can 
produce Effects fo prodigious. 
March d- William Stukely. 
1749-50. j 
XXV. 
ExtraEi of a Letter to Mr. J- Ellicott F.R.S. 
concerning cm Earthquake at Portfmouth, 
March 18. 1749-50. 
Read March 22.T^Y a Letter I had from Mr. Oakes 
J749- |j at Fortf mouth, dated the 19th in- 
ftant, he gives me an Account of the Inhabitants 
being alarm’d with a fevere Shock of an Earthquake 
on Sunday the 1 8th at Six o 1 Clock in the Evening ; 
and that it was felt Wronger at the Common , which 
is about three Quarters of a Mile diftant. 
XXVI. 
