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XXXII. 
A Letter from James Burrow Ffquire y 
F. R. S. to Peter Daval Ffq\ Seer. R. S. 
concerning the fame Earthquake being felt 
at Eaft Sheen, near Richmond Park in 
Surrey. 
Dear Sir , 
March 30. 1750. 
Read April j. 
175°. 
I A M very much obliged to you for the 
Opportunity of perilling thofe Papers, 
which I intended and ought to have come and 
heard read. If I had been prefent, I would have 
(in fome meafure) confirmed Mr. Newcome’s Ac- 
count of what was perceived in his Houfe at Hack - 
ney , by a fimilar Tefiimony from Eaji Sheen near 
Richmond Rark in Surrey. It depends indeed up- 
on the Perception of a lingle Perfon ; whereas his 
is verified by the Senfations of fix different ones; 
but it is exactly parallel, as to the being felt abovc- 
ftairs, but not below. 
On Sunday the i8;h inftant, at a very little after 
6 in the Afternoon, as Mifs Lethieullier was fitting 
in her Drefiing-Room up two Pair of Stairs, front- 
ing to the South, with a Book before her, fhe felt 
fuch a Shock of an Earthquake, as fhe apprehended, 
that fhe immediately ran down i aits, frighted ; and 
finding Mr. Lethieullier her Father, and another Per- 
fon, fitting together in the Parlour, asked them, “ if 
“ they had not felt another Shock of an Earthquake/' 
But, 
