j65 THE GREAT EARTKaUAlE OF 175S- 
the.^' 
ebb of tide, and near three quarters after six in ^*’^•'^' 1 ''* 
ing, a vast quantity of water nished up with a P' 
noise, floated two large vessels, the least- of the>n 
two hundred tons, broke their moorings, drov® ij|t 
across tlie river, and had like to have overset them- 
whole rise and fall of this extraordinary body of ^ J' 
not last above ten minutes, nor was it felt in any oth ^ i|t 
of the river, so that it seemed to have gushed out 
earth at that place. 
Similar instances occurred at Loch Lomond an® 
Ness, in Scotland. At Kins.ale, in Ireland, and a* ^ 
the coast to the westward, many similar phenomena 
observed. 
Shocks were also perceived in several parts of ^ j,)/ 
as at Bayonne, Bourdeaux, and Lyons ; and 
tions of the waters were observed at ANGoUa 
Belleville, Havre de Grace, Stc. but not attend^ 
the remarkable circumstances above-mentioned, . j, 
lit*' 
earthquake of November I, 1755, was attended 
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These are the most striking phenomena with 
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surface of the eartli. Those which happened belt)"' S ,iij‘ 
cannot be known but by the changes obseiYed in 
&c. which were in many places very remarkable, .[ji*', 
tb.'’'!/ 
At Tangier, all the fountains were dried up, so 
was no water to be had till night. A very 
change was observed in the medicinal waters of 
village in Bohemia, famous for its baths. Thn^^^j 
were discovered in the year 762 ; from which 
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principal spring had constantly thrown out I'U*^ , pi*\. 
the same quantity, and of tlie same quality. On tn‘' 
ii’ 
ing of the earthquake, between eleven and 
forenoon, this principal spring cast forth such a 
water, that in the space of half an hour all tlie 
over. About half an hour before this great Increa^ 
water, the spring flowed turbid and muddy ; tbeU' ^ ^ 
stopped entirety for a minute, it broke forth ^S‘., ([/ 
prodigious violence, driving before it a consider*)^ ^ 
tity of reddish ochre. After this, it became 
flowed as pure as before. It still continued to d® ^ 
the water was in greater quantity, and hotter, 
the earthquake. At Angoulesme, in France, jl'** 
jieous noise, like Uiunder, was heard j and preset’ 
