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and is remarkably curious, for a Man in his Sphere 
of Life, informs me, that he felt himfelf moved, as 
he fat in his Chair, in fuch a manner, that he thought 
fomebody had been at the Door 5 or (if I under- 
hand him right) as if fomerhing had fallen againft it: 
And when he came to the Door, about two or three 
Seconds after, he felt a Motion that he certainly 
knew to be an Earthquake. 
I do not hear of any thing fecn in or upon the 
Ground j unlefs the Cafe of a good Woman at IVel - 
den may be counted an Exception ; who fays, that, 
while (he was fhaken by it, fhe faw the Ground move 
around her. 
Mr. Sca-'jaen is very confident, that he heard that 
rufhing Noifc (fo generally fpoken of by all who 
oblervcd any thing cxtraoi dinary) not only before, 
but after the Shock ; and that he could by both trace 
the Direction mentioned above. 
I {hall only add, that a very worthy Lady of this 
Town (Niece, as I remember, to Sir Hans Sloane') 
obferved, that, juft before the Shock, her Birds 
drooped remarkably, and hid their Heads under their 
Wings : A Circumftance which is often obferved in 
Italy , and other Places where thefe Phenomena 
are frequent. 
Thefe are the mod material Circumftances I have 
yet had an Opportunity of collecting ; and if any 
thing elfe, which feems at all worthy of Notice, 
fhould occur, 1 fhali be very ready to impart it. 
p. S. The principal Circumftances attending the 
Aurora Borealis mention’d above, were as fol- 
lows ; 
On 
