194 Mr. pennant’s Account of feveral Earthquakes. 
before ten at night, the noife was fuch as preceded the former ; 
and the (hock fo violent as to (hake the bottles and glafles on 
the table round which myfelf and fome company were fitting. 
This feemed to come from the eaft. I fee in the Gentleman’s 
Magazine of that year, that this fhock extended to Shropfhire, 
and quite to Bath, and to Swanfea in South Wales. 
The earlieft earthquake I remember here was on the \ oth of 
April 1750, It has the honour of being recorded in thePhilo- 
fophical Tranfaftions, therefore 1 fhall not trouble* you with 
the repetition of what I have faid. 
Permit me to obferve, that I live near a mineral country, in 
a lit nation between lead mines and coal mines ; in a fort of 
neutral traft, about a mile diftant from the firft, and half a. 
mile from the laft. On the ftri&eft inquiry I cannot difcover 
that the miners or colliers were ever fenfible of the fhocks 
under ground : nor have they ever perceived, when the fhocks 
in queftion have happened, any falls of the loofe and fhattery 
ftrata, in which the laft efpecially work ; yet, at the fame 
time, the earthquakes have had violence fufficient to terrify 
the inhabitants of the furface. Neither were thefe local ; for, 
excepting the firft, all may be traced to very remote parts. The 
weather was remarkably ftill at the time of every earthquake 
I have felt. 
I remain, with true regard, &c. 
