5 6 NATURAL HISTORY 
gardener, then in the dwelling-houfe, (about a hundred yards dis- 
tant from us) felt the ftone pavement of the room he was in, move 
In what place the fhock began, and whether progrefiive or mftan- 
taneous in the feveral places where it was felt, is uncertain, 01 
want of accurately determining the precife point of time in diftant 
Pk The £hock was not equally loud or violent. Its extent was from 
the illes of Scilly Eaftward as far as Lifkerd, and towards the North 
as far as Camelford ; through which diftrid I fhall trace it accord- 
ing to the bed informations I could procure. 
% the ifland of St. Mary, Scilly, the fhock was violent : on the 
fhores of Cornwall, oppofite to Scilly, (in the parifh of Scnan, near 
the Land’s End) the noife was heard like that of a fpinning- wheel 
on a chamber-floor : below flairs, there was a cry that the houfe 
was {halting ; and the brafs pans and pewter rattled one againft 
another in feveral houfes in the fame pariflr. In the adjoining panto 
of St. Tuft, two young men, being then fwimming, felt a itrong 
and very unufual agitation of the Sea. In the town or Penzance, 
in one houfe the chamber bell rung, in another the pewter plates, 
placed edgeways on a fhelf, fhifted, and Aid to one end of the 
fhelf ; and it was every-where perceived more or lefs, according as 
peoples attention was engaged. 
At Trevailer, the Seat of William Veale, Efq; about two miles 
from Penzance, the noife was heard, and thought at firft to be 
thunder : the windows fhook, and the walls of the parlour, where 
Mr. Veale fat, vifibly moved. The jarring of the windows conti- 
nued near half a minute, but the motion of the walls not quite fo 
long; and feme mafons being at work on a contiguous new build- 
ing the upright poles of the fcaffolds fhook fo violently, that, for 
fear of falling, they laid hold on the walls, which, to their ftill 
greater furprize, they found agitated in the fame manner ; and a 
perfon prefent, who was at London at the time of the two fhocks, 
in the year 1751, thought this fhock to referable the fecond, both 
in degree and duration \ 
At Marazion, the next market town Eaft of Penzance, the hou es 
of feveral perfons fhook to that degree, that people ran out into the 
ftreet, left the houfes fhould fall upon them. In the borough or 
St. Ives, on the North Sea, fix miles North of Penzance, the lhock 
was fo violent, that a gentleman, who had been at Lifbon during 
feveral fhocks, faid, that this exceeded all he had met with, except 
that on the ift of November, 17 5 5 > ia tal to that city. 
a Letter from William V ealc, Efq; 
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