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THE GREAT EAETHaUAKB OF 1 ? 55 . 
tlie city. It rose fifteen feet perpendicular above 
water mark, although the tide, which tliere flo"'® 
feet, was at half-ebb. The water immediately 
and after having fluctuated four or five times betwe®'’^|y 
and lovv water mark, it subsided, and the sea if 
calm as before. In the northern part of tlie isl®’’ 
inundation tvas more violent, the sea there retiring 
hundred paces at first, and, suddenly returning, ove'yjjc’ 
the sliorc, forcing open doors, breaking down the 
several magazines and storehouses, and leaving gre£'‘ \ 
titles of fish ashore, and in the streets of the ’vill<# 
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Mnchico. All this was, the effect of one rising 
sea, for it never afterwards flowed high enough [i(i 
the high-water mark. It continued, however, to 
here much longer before it subsided than at Funch>'*'[f’ 
in some places farther to the westward, it was hardl/' 
all, perceptible. Jf 
These were the phenomena with which this reif^ ,/ 
earthquake was attended in those places where it 
violent. The effects of it, however, reached to an J* 
di.stance ; and were perceived chiefly by the agitatioi’* 
cy-srvtA *.1 w • f| 
waters, or some slight motion of the earth. 
boundaries to the south are unknown : the barbariV 
African nations renikring it impossible to proc- ,,t 
intelligence from them, e-veept where the efle^^jj^' 
dreadful. On the north, however, we are assure*^' 
reached as far as Norway and Sw'eden. In ' 
kingdom, the waters of several rivers and lakes 
leutly agitated. In the latter, shocks were felt if 
provinces, and all the ri\ers and lakes were 
agitated, especially in Dalecarlia. I'he river Dala fj;’, jj’’ 
overflowed its banks, and as suddenly retired. At •*’j' 
time, a lake at the distance of a leaeue from iti J , 
which it had no manner of communication, bu’^S' 
with great violence. At Fahlun, a town in , 
several strong shocks were felt. 
In many places of Germany the effects of 
quake were very perceptible ; but in Holland, 
tions were still more remarkable. At Alpheu on 
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between Leyden and Woerden, in Ute attenioff 
first of November, the waters were agitated 
violent degree, that buoys were broken from tbe*l 
