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tody the original Letter from Mr. Seddon to Mr. 
Rhilpot i and fhall not part with it without your 
Direction. 
1 am, Sir, with the greateft Refpect, 
Tour mo ft humble Servant, 
Ph. Warburton. * 
JLxtracl of a Letter from the Rev. Mr. J. Seddon, 
of Warrington in Lancafhire, to Mr. John Philpot 
in Chcfter, dated Warrington, May 10. lyyo. 
T HE late Earthquake happen’d the 2d of April, 
at 10 at Night, as nearly as can be determin’d j 
if any thing, rather after than before. I was at Li- 
verpool at that time, where the Shock was not fo 
fenlible as at fome other Places ,• and yet a Perfon 
in Company with us that had lived in Jamaica a 
great Number of Years, and well acquainted with 
Motions of this kind, having felt eleven in one 
Night, declared it to be the fmarteft he ever felt. 
The Duration of the Motion was cvery-wherc ex- 
tremely fhorr,not exceeding, as nearly as 1 can guefs, 
2 or 3 Seconds of Time. 
As to the Nature of the Motion, as far as I can judge 
of it myfelf, and from the Obfervations of others, it 
feems to have been of the horizontal kind, proceed- 
ing in an undulating manner from North-Weft to 
South-Eaft. I was in a fitting Pofture, and the Mo- 
tion I felt was like that of a Veflel falling from the 
Top of a Wave, and riling again upon the next. 
Mr. Breckell Ot Liverpool , and others that 1 have 
convers’d with upon the Subject, reprefent it in the 
fame Way, 
It 
