a a 8 Mr.  henry’s  Account  of  an 
may  tend  to  confirm  Dr.  stukeley’s  theory  of  earth- 
quakes being  occafioned  by  the  accumulation  and  dis- 
charge of  the  electrical  fluid : yet  I cannot  but  obferve, 
that  the  ftate  of  the  atmofphere  and  of  the  feafon  feems 
to  have  differed  in  many  points  from  that  which  he  de- 
fcribes  as  preceding  the  earthquakes  in  the  years  1749 
and  17  50. 
Dr.  stukeeey  fays,  that  for  four  or  five  months  the 
weather  had  been  warm  to  an  extraordi  nary  degree,  the 
wind  generally  South  and  South-weft  without  rain.  That 
in  the  marfliy  parts  of  Lincolnlhire  the  drought  had 
been  fo  great  on  the  furface  of  the  earth,  that  the  inha- 
bitants had  been  obliged  to  drive  their  cattle  many  miles 
to  water.  That  before  the  London  earthquakes,  vegeta- 
tion was  as  forward  in  February  as  it  ufually  is  in  April. 
That  the  aurora  borealis  was  frequent,  unufual  in  its  co- 
lours, and  even  removed  to  the  South;  and  that  the 
whole  year  had  been  remarkable  for  fire-balls,  lightning, 
and  corufcations. 
In  the  prefent  year  the  Spring  and  fummer  had  been 
in  general  remarkably  cold  and  unfeafonable,  the  wind 
varying  from  North-weft  by  Weft  to  South-eaft  by  South, 
the  latter  of  which  commonly  brought  rain.  During 
the  latter  end  of  the  month  of  May,  and  part  of  June, 
the  weather  was  exceedingly  dry,  and-  very  fharp  frofts 
deftroyed 
