Earthquake  at  Manc’nefter.  227 
clearly  diftingui-fhable.  Some  perfons  were  fenfible  of 
two,  and  fome  of  one  only. 
The  motion  of  the  earthquake,  at  leaf!;  of  a milling 
wind  which  attended  it,  was  from  South-weft  to  North- 
eaft.  It  was  felt  at  York,  Lancafter,  Liverpool,  Chefter, 
Birmingham,  Derby,  and  Gainfborough ; and  within  this 
circuit,  the  diameter  of  which  muft  be  x 30  or  1 40  miles, 
with  greateft  violence  in  this  neighbourhood,  which  ap- 
pears to  have  been  the  center  of  it. 
In  Derbylhire,  through  a great  part  of  which  county 
I have  fince  travelled,  the  lhock  was  ftrong  on  the 
Weftem,  and  weak  on  the  Eaftern  fide  of  the  Peak.  I 
cannot  find  that  any  of  the  mines  were  injured  by  it, 
though  it  had  been  reported  that  fome  of  the  foughs  had 
fallen  in.  Nor  does  it  appear,  that  in  the  great  extent  of 
country,  which  was  thus  violently  agitated,  any  more 
material  damage  was  buffered  than  the  throwing  down 
fome  chimnies.  Praifed  be  that  kind,  fuper-intending 
Providence,  who  rides  on  the  whirlwind,  and  directs  the 
ftorm ; and  who  gracioufly  put  a period  to  this  awful  and 
tremendous  fcene,  when  we  were  apparently  on  the 
brink  of  deftrudtion  i 
To  you,  sir,  who  have  fo  intimate  a knowledge  of 
eleftrical  fubjefts,  it  would  be  impertinent  to  make  any 
obfervations  on  the  above  faffs.  Perhaps  many  of  them 
Vol.  LXVIII.  Gg  may 
