Earthquake  at  Manchefter.  231;: 
On  the  20th,  2 1 ft,  and  2 2d  of  September  much  rain 
fell,  attended  with  thunder  and  lightning.  The  ftorm 
was  particularly  violent  on  the  21ft  in  the  neighbour- 
hood of  Rochdale,  twelve  miles  from  hence;  and  early 
on  the  morning  of  the  2 2d  the  whole  hemifphere  ap- 
peared, from  this  place,  to  be  involved  in  one  general 
blaze. 
Should  this  account  appear  to  you  fufficiently  intereft- 
ing  to  be  communicated  to  the  Royal  Society,  I fhall  be 
obliged  to  you  if  you  will  introduce  it  when  they  meet.  I 
have  given  a plain  but  authentic  narrative  of  facts,  and 
have  avoided  drawing  any  inferences  from  them,  con- 
fcious  of  my  own  inability  to  inveftigate  fo  obfcure  and; 
intricate  a fubjeft. 
