230  Mr.  henry’s  Account  of  an 
The  morning  on  which  the  earthquake  happened  was 
clear  and  ferene.  The  air  was  fo  far  from  being  fultry, 
that  fome  perfons  who  rode  out  early  in  the  morning 
complained  of  the  coldnefs  of  it.  The  wind  was  Eafterly. 
At  the  inftant  of  the  fhock  it  is  faid  to  have  veered  to  the 
Weft,  and  to  have  immediately  returned  to  its  former 
ftation.  My  barometer  had  rifen  in  the  night.  When  I 
obferved  it,  about  fifteen  minutes  after  the  earthquake, 
it  ftood  at  thirty  inches,  and  it  continued  to  rife  all  the 
day.  One  gentleman,  who  had  marked  the  height  of 
I 
the  quickfilver  in  his  barometer  that  morning,  obferved 
that  it  had  fallen  a few  lines  at  the  fhock,  but  it  foon  rofe 
again  to  the  fame  place.  The  thermometer  at  noon  ftood 
at  63°. 
No  cloud,  except  a few  fcattered  white  ones,  fuch  as 
our  atmofphere  is  feldom  free  from,  was  obfervable 
either  before  or  after  the  conclufion,  and  no  rain  was 
difcharged  either  on  that  or  feveral  following  days. 
which  are  overloaded  with  it  to  thofe  which  are  exhaufbd  of  it.  In  the  ium* 
mer  of  the  prefent  year,  while  the  Southern  counties  were  deluged  with  rain, 
this  part  of  the  kingdom  was  thirfling  for  want  of  it.  And  afterwards,  while 
long  continued  heavy  rains  impeded  the  ripening  of  the  corn,  and  threatened 
deftru£tion  to  the  harveft  in  this  country,  I am  informed,-  that  the  counties  in. 
the  neighbourhood  of  London  enjoyed  a clear  iky  and  fine  weather.  I am  ig- 
norant what  was  the  Hate  of  the.  atmolphere  in  the  South  in  the  month  of  Sep- 
tember. 
