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The Commiffloncr, by rcafon of frequent Returns 
of the Gout, docs not fleep up-ftairs, but in a very 
Email Room behind the Houfe, joining to the 
Houfe, and communicating by a Door with one 
of the back Parlours. This Building is fo low 
(being only a Ground -floor, without any Room; 
over it), and is fo skreen'd by higher Buildings, 
that hardly any Wind can affect it,* efpecially the 
Wind which blew that Night 5 as the Body of the 
Commiflioner’s Houfe was betwixt that and the 
Stroke of the Wind. 
The Dock is about two Miles Weft front Plymouth r 
and about 220 almoft Weft from London .. 
xliii. 
A Letter from Mr. Ph. Warburton to the. 
Prehdent, ferving to inclofe an ExtraEl of 
a Letter fro?n the Rev. Mr. John Seddon, 
t?/' Warrington in Lancafhire, to Mr. Jo, 
Phil pot, in Chefter, concerning an Earth** 
quake, April 2. 1750. 
Dear Sir, Grange in Chejhire , June ID. 175a 
Read June 14. /■ J ' HE inclofed Extradistheonly writ- 
,75 °‘ A ten Account of the late Earthquake 
which I can obtain from any of the Naturaliftsin this 
Country: And as I have converted with feveral in- 
telligent Perfons who perceived it, the inclofed Ex- 
trad correfponds very exactly with their Sentiments 
apd Oblcivations upon it, I have now in my Cuf- 
