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The Difference of thefe Accounts may, in my 
Opinion, be reconcil’d, by fuppefing, that the Ex- 
plofion might have been heard abroad in fuch Places 
where it was more violent ; and not in others where 
it was lefs fo. 
As for any thing (I prefume you meant lambent 
Flame, Vapour, &c.) being perceiv’d on the Sur- 
face of the Ground, before or during the Earthquake, 
nothing of this kind has as yet been mention’d to 
me from any Quarter. 
I find there has been a Report of a Meteor, like a 
Ball of Fire, appearing in the Morning before the 
Shock was felt; but it is, by the judicious Part of 
the World, rank’d among the other Mirabilia ufu- 
ally invented upon thefe Occafions to amufe the 
Vulgar. I am, Sir, 
Tour mo ft obedient , 5 c c. 
J. Nixon. 
LI. 
A Letter from the Rev. P. Doddridge D.D. 
to Mr. Henry Baker F, R. S. containing 
fome Account of the late Earthquake felt at 
Northampton. 
tCorihmnpton , OSicber 1 7. 1750. 
Read oa. 25. f 1 " A H E Shock of an Earthquake lately 
' ' )0 A felt h cre > which has been fo much 
talked of, and in fome public Papers magnified far 
beyond the Truth, happened on Sunday the 30th of 
September , 
