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THE GREAT EARTHCJUAKE OF 17^5 
grass walk. During this latter motion, tlie bot 
north side was left dry for several feet. This 
lasted for about a quarter of an hour, after which 
’ ■ ‘ -- ' - During the •-> 
became smooth and quiet as before. „ 
time, the sand at the bottom, was thi'own up ae if 
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with the water j and there was a continual noise 
of water turning a mill. At Cobbam, in Sun'e}'» .jj' 
STALL, in Suffolk, Earsy Court, in Berkshire, ^ 
BRIDGE, Kent, and many other places, the wate 
variously agitated. 
At Eyam-bridgb, in Derbyshire Peak, the ove''^_]^,iv 
the lead-mines, sitting in his Avriting-room, aboid 
o’clock, felt a sudden shock, which very sensibu ,( 
him up in his chair , and caused several pieces ot P' 
The roof aa'S** ■, |n'' 
lenfly shaken, that he imagined the engine-shaft 
drop from the sides of the room. 
falling in. Upon this he immediately ran to see 
il 
the matter, but found every thing in perfect 
this time two miners were employed in carting, or “ ipiif 
along the drifts of the mines, the ore and other pU il)“ 
to be raised up at the shafts. The di'ift in W*"® 
were working was about a hundred and 
deep, and the space from one end to the other 
or upwards. The miner at the end of the drift 
loaded his cart, and was drawing it along ; 
suddenly surprised by a shock, which so tei'rified h' 
he immediately quitted his employment, and rao, 
lesf 
west end of the drift to his partner, who was 
rified than himself. They durst not attempt to ca ^ ^,li' 
shaft, lest that should be running in upon them 
they were consulting what means they should 
iney were consulting wiiai uieans 0107 ouuu-- 
their safety, they were surprised by a second shoc^’j^,/ 
violent than the first ; which frightened them 
that they both ran precipitately to the other ^ ^ 
drift. They then went down to another 
worked about twelve yards below them. H® ^ ^ 
that the violenee of the second shock had been ^ 
Uiat it caused the rocks to grind upon one anot*’ 
account was intemipted by a third shock, wbicbi 
interval of four or five minutes, was succeeded by.^j^ , ^ 
account was in' 
interval 
and, about llie same sqrace of time after, Jby a 
of wliich were so violent as the second. They b«^ 
