i6T 
V ®»EAT EARTHaUAKE OP 1755. 
sa^ discharged a torrent of vvaterj mixed 
»ti( 
, “* su I of tlie springs in the neighbourhood 
j ”8111 (q ^ manner, that for some time they were 
■qi'**' '^'as oh^ Britain, no considerable alter- 
* ®bove in the earth, except that, near die lead- 
® foot Derbyshire, a cleft was observed 
; yards 1 ®P* inches wide, and one hundred and 
sea n, 
ld(^*^tly. shocks of this earthquake were felt most 
1 ^iiin ** die Captain of the Nancy frigate 
V( ■ 'iie^r° shaken, that he thought she had 
'H a ' 
C"|' 
but, on heaving the lead, found she 
depth of water. Captain Clark, from Denia, 
"'^gpat, 
thirty-six degrees twenty-four minutes, 
!^r«*'^^'nec! n i'^ die morning, had his ship shaken 
>s 
■I, , Of if she had struck upon a rock, so tliat the 
jiilij ? iiiiiac] . compass u'as overturned 
The Master of a 
being in north 
in the steerage ; 
'itjifdcaa The Master of a vessel bound to the 
"est*!''^^' . iti north latitude twenty-five 
. .’’gitude forty degree.s, and writing in his 
he* noise, as he imagined, in 
a asking wJiat the matter was, the ship was 
gitation, and seen 
and suspended 
-C iuiP^^'^i'ilf^t*^ 
^..P^l'^'dshnient : 
ly jerji agitation, and seemed as if she had been 
Vo'*'^'’i-lH>aH suspended by a rope fastened to 
''•iqjj Still asf,' • immediately started up witli great 
and looking out at the cabin- 
'll '""'nil ’ "*■ distance 
JiOss'**!® to 1^*^' doming upon the deck, tlie land was 
I'ls ,, le ®^‘^'i> but he perceived a violent current 
S-M?"- 
■'^^ 1118 '^'^'^®''! ret* leeward. In about a minute, 
tii,* '^‘''tauc ■with great impetuosity ; and at a 
*1® saw three craggy-pointed rocks tlirow- 
tj variou.s colours, resembling fire. This 
Itch" a-\ two minutes, ended in a black 
' - ■ ■ iiQriz iieavily- After it had risen 
'hi,,* “'.ill "o rocks were to be seen ; though the 
N> 
ji^'^C'idii 
itq. 'i' '“tiS visible, the weatlier being 
b ^glv f ninfi and ten in the morning, 
iwVm "SHateT^^i west of St. 'Vincent, was so 
"'I’i-tiH- "P. aiui ’ , ^ii® anchors^ which were lashed, 
thf» ... it/. - ot- 1/4 « 
tnen were thrown a- foot and a half 
f "P from tlie deck. Immediately after this. 
