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'I went thro* Stamford to Grantham, in my Way to 
Torkfhire , an Earthquake was felt in both thofe 
Places : So that I have been within the Knowlege of 
no lefs than Four of thefe Shocks of Nature in Eight 
Months time; but, thank God, none of them at- 
tended with any ill Confequences, any farther than 
furnilhing Room for melancholy Reflections upon 
fuch a difagreeablc Alteration in our Climate, which 
had been generally thought before tolerably free 
from this Calamity. 
Believe me to be, with mod fmcere Love and 
Efteem, 
Dear Brother , 
Tour moft faithful , 
and obedient humble Servant, 
W. Folkes. 
* « • » . , r V s ^ 
XLVIII. 
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Part of a better from Janies Burrow, Efq\ 
F. R. S. to the Prefident, concernmg an 
Earthquake felt near Bury St. Edmund’s 
in Suffolk, and another at Narborough in 
Leicefterfhire, on the 30//6 of September, 
1750. 
Bury St. Edmund’s, 2d Ocfcober, 1750. 
Dear Sir , 
ReadOR. 25. H I S Morning I have been making 
I75 °‘ ^ aVifit at Lord Cornwallis’s, at Cul- 
ford ; which, i fuppofe, I need not tell you, is about 
four Miles from Bury in Suffolk. Lady Cornwallis 
(whofc 
