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Rain. A fudden Temped of Rain, in the Time of 
a great Drought. 
At the fame time that the Force of Ele&ricity in 
Solids is as the Quantity of Matter, we fee mod 
evidently, that Water is equally forcible in firength- 
cning and conducting it, and that in proportion to 
its Quantity : Which very much judifies my Obfer- 
vation, that mod frequent Earthquakes have fallen 
upon maritime Places. And I find the fame Obfer- 
vation is made before me by Acojta and ‘ Dolittle , 
who wrote on that in 1692. and others. In the 
dreadful. Catadrophc of * Tort-royal , it is notorious, 
that its Violence was chiefly near the Sea: And 
even in thofe fo lately felt by us, they were fenfibly 
more violent toward the River, than further from 
it. And in that Earthquake in England, in 1692. 
(which was very much like that we are treating of) 
there were no Houles thrown down, nor Pcrfons 
kill'd 5 but it reach’d more particularly Sandwich, 
' Deal r \ Dover , Sheer nefs , Tort [month, and the ma- 
ritime Parts of Holland , Flanders , and Normandy. 
In this tnat happen'd lad Sunday at 6 in the Even- 
ing at Bath , it was felt particularly at T or tf mouth, 
the whole Ifle of Wight, and Jerfty. 
If we look into antic nt Hidory, we find, in the 
197th Year before Chrifi, an Earthquake fhook ter- 
ribly the Ifle of Rhodes , damag’d many Cities, and r 
fome were fwallow’d up. 
17 Years before Chrifi, many Cities in the Ifle of 
Cyprus were dedroy'd. 
6 Years before Chrifi, the Ifle of Coos was mod 
vehemently afflicted. 
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