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Opportunities of refle&ing on that moft awful, and 
hitherto unufual, Appearance. The Year 1750. may 
rather be called the Year of Earthquakes, than o( Ju- 
bilee. For, fince they began with us at London, as far 
as I can learn, they have appeared in many Parts of Eu- 
rope, AJia , Africa , and America , and have likewife 
revifited many Counties in our Ifland : At length, 
on 30th of laft: September, taken their Leave ( as 
we hope) with much the mold extenfivc Shock we 
have feen in our Days. 
It may well be expetted, that thefe frequent Viftts, 
in themfelves fo very extraordinary, to us fo rare, 
and that in one Year, fhould keep up our Attention ; 
and, as to my own Part, induce one to refledl on 
what I before offered concerning them, and be a fuf- 
ficient Apology for the prefent Paper. 
We have been acquainted, by thofe that remem- 
ber it, that in the Earthquake of November 1703. 
which happen'd in LincoJnfnre , the Weather was 
calm, dole, gloomy, warm, and dry, in a Degree 
highly unufual at that Seafon : And thus it has been 
with us all the Year: And from the numerous Ac? 
counts we have received at the Royal Society , in the 
Beginning and End of the Year, where any Mention 
is made of the Weather, they agree in the like Par- 
ticular : Which is consentaneous to what I remarked 
as the conftant Forerunner of Earthquakes, and what 
prepares the Earth's Surface to receive the eledtrical 
Stroke . 
In my laft we had a Paper read at the Royal So- 
ciety, concerning the firft Earthquake felt by us at 
London on 8th February. A Shepherd belonging to 
Mr. Secretary Fox at Kenfmgton , the Sky being per- 
fectly 
