^erv , great EAETHaUAKE OF 1755. 164 
a loud rumbling in the bowels of the earth. 
about half a minute, gradually decreasing, 
■S to remove to a p 
“s. 
Of * a p)-p5 tiJoat which encompasses the building. There 
^ tliick, fog, not a breath of air, and the surface 
at moat as smooth as a looking-glass. 
A^^iro- 1 
l^t 8[j'^ remove to a greater distance. 
Qj.^!®®tiuRN Castle, Oxfordshire, alittle after ten in 
a very strange motion was observed in the 
j ,?tie corner, where it flowed into the shore, and 
to Successively, in a surprising manner. How it 
fliw is uncertain, as it was not then observed. 
, ux aiifi .„A3 , . . . „ 
It''!'* bcgg when seen, were quite regular. Every 
■ S'h 'ts velocity increasing by degrees, until 
it "^^^bed in with great impetuosity, till it had 
It- '’nary*- ** k®*§bt. Having remained for a little time 
sjjV.*- *^60 retired, ebbing gently at first, but after- 
ao^ '^bol'e away with great swiftness. At every flux 
tf**'*^ die t water seemed to be violently thrown 
y,' tligj j but neither during the time of the flux, 
of ' 1‘cflux, did there ajipear even the least 
■ 
a Wave on the other parts of the moat. Lord 
> \VV» , Uiu UVilCi 
WilpA? observed this 
;^o:'*®ther 
motion, beittg desirous to 
*>k "' ^'e ' "u universal over the moat, sent a per- 
Kto '*jker corner of it, at the same time that he 
•'at'"® 't'hetl "k'^ut twenty-five yards from him to ex- 
water moved there or not. He could 
'V ^ to u. uiotion there ; but another person, who 
>0s:;° d>0 
wk *'e tQ 1 . uuuici ui uiu iiiuai^ uicvguiiau^ 
^v found it as considerable tliere as 
*be His lordship imagining, that in .ill proba- 
'’'si '"’ouiff''.®'' corner diagonally opposite to where 
'iiilj^’'ify, ®'uk as that by him rose, ordered the person 
^Qcl '^^ling out, when the water by him began to 
*(is (j This he did ; but to his lordship’s 
!'Sc; vtid *1 ®'™ciiately after tlie water began to rise at 
f k'to voice calling that it began to 
V k; ''^0 j and in the same manner he heard tliat 
bf *'*'kin„ — > “ou u 
“/*■ k's end, soon after he perceived it to sink 
but ,1 just below was agitated in a similar 
\( risings and sinkings happened at diftisreiit 
ut the pond where Lord Parker stood. 
■‘•locK, in Glamorganshire, about two houri 
