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think the whole Eaftern Part of the Town was rnoft 
affe&ed. Dr. Stonehoufe , who lives in that Part of 
it, felt it with great Violence, as if a loaded Wag- 
gon had run ftrongly agairift the gable End of his 
Houfe : And tho’ the V ails are remarkably thick, 
he was greatly alarm'd with an Apprchenfion that 
they would have fallen. 
What further confirms this Pvcmark of the hori- 
zontal, or at lead oblique Direction of the Impulfe 
is, that a Cradle was rock’d by ir. In the Houfe of 
Mr. Teoman, where our little philosophical Society 
meets, it threw down a Board from the Tefter of 
a Bed j yet Mr. Teoman himfelf did not feel ir. 
There was a Report, that in Abingt on- Street fomc 
Chimnies were thrown down; and this brought 
Numbers of People from different Parts of the Town, 
to Purvey the Suppos’d Ruins,- but it only Served to 
illufirate the Uncertainty of Rumour. However, it 
was true that a few Bricks were thrown down from 
a Chimney in College-Lane . 
It is very certain, that all who felt the Shock 
heard a hollow rufhing Node; which, So far as I 
can learn. Seemed to come in a Direction from the 
South-Weft to the Norrh-Eaft. In Rooms where 
Several PerSons were together, Some were ftrongly 
fenfible of it, while others felt nothing at all : And 
{ceteris paribus ) I think it was felt more fenfibly 
by thole above than thofe below, and by Such as 
were fitting, (landing, or leaning, rather than walk- 
ing. 
A lumbering kind of NoiSe was heard by Some in 
lower Apartments, as if Some one over their Heads 
had fallen down on a Sudden, with a dead Weight; 
and 
