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Ground to fhake under him; and that he even faw 
it move where he was (tho’ as dry and found a Spot 
as any he knows) like a Quagmire or Quickfand 
infomuch that he could not help being apprehenfive, 
that it would have opened, and taken him in. 
He fays, that the Sheep he was beginning to tell 
all darted up at once, as frighted, and prefently be- 
gan to run, as if purfued by fomewhat they were 
apprehenfive of. He (aid further, that he took no- 
tice, that fevcral Crows, which were at Rood upon 
fomc Trees not far off, all at the fame Indant dew 
away, making the fame Noife they condantly make 
when they are affrighted at the Difcovery of a Bird 
of Prey, or any other Enemy; and that the Trees 
thcmfelvcs very fenfibly trembled and fhook. 
The Noife he heard began a fenfible time before 
the Shake of the Earth; and he judges that the 
whole Matter laded better than a Minute. 
He hid expreffed himfelf about the Direction of 
the Noife he heard in the Manner jud above re- 
lated ; and, being asked again concerning that Par- 
ticular, he explained himfelf by faying, that, to his 
thinking, it came on from between Hillington and 
Harrow on the Hill , and went off over Deptford: 
Which may be obferved to be very agreeable to 
his other Defcription. 
Mr. Bird , the eminent Mathematical Indrumcnt- 
maker in the Strand , told me a To the fame Day, 
that he heard, at his Houle, a Noife, like the Dif- 
charge of a Cannon at l'ome Didancc, jud before 
the Earthquake j and that his Bed, in which he then 
was, was very fenfibly rocked from light to left 
twice : And that he is well allured the Feet of the 
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