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Shock in thefe Parts is part fome Weeks ago: So 
that the fearful Expe&ations, which have unmann’d 
the daftardly Londoners , have no other Foundation 
than this, that, in all Events, Englijhmen arc (till 
after the Fair. 
The Author of Nature, for our Sins, may 
alarm us with a fourth, and four hundred more, if 
His Wifdom pleafes; but, as to a third, fo little 
do our guilty Confciences, or vifionary iMonitors, 
know of the Matter, that Providence has prevented 
the Fears of the one, and antedated the Predictions 
of the other. For, without any regular Connexion 
with the Moon, it happen’d about 7 Days after the 
fecond Shock, on the 14th of March, I believe, be- 
fore 4 o’ Clock in the Morning ; when full awake, 
I felt my Houfe, for a Second or two, fhake, like 
a Spaniel juft come out of Water. My Bell on the 
Stair-cafe rung only one Twitch. I rofe, look’d 
out, and faw the Moon fhine bright, without one 
Cloud, or one Breath of Wind; and, finding none 
of my Servants difturb’d, I return’d to found and 
quiet Sleep. 
It was exactly of the fame Nature with the fe- 
cond Shock, a Shudder of the Houfe from Top to 
Bottom^ fo that I neither miftook the one nor the 
other for an Explofion of Mr. Normans Horfe- 
Powder-Miils, wherein, you know, he never works 
above 40 Pounds at a time. Here I felt nothing 
like an Exploiion, but a Concuftion, which any Man 
may conceive, from his Hand fhaking a Bed upon 
Carters, if we may compare great things to Email. 
Nor can I deferibe the fecond Shock, felt alfo in 
Bed, compared with this third, other wife than by 
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