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and its extent from east to west about 175. In this latter di- 
rection, or rather from north-east to south-west, it may be 
said to have reached nearly across the island. 
The counties in which I have any account of the earthquake 
having been perceived are Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Oxford- 
shire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, 
Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Glouces- 
tershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, 
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire. 
To those counties may, I think, be safely added Rutland- 
shire, Berkshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Shrop- 
shire. I have not indeed met with any account of the earth- 
quake from either of them ; but, whoever will examine the 
situation of these counties, with respect to those above enu- 
merated, will find it difficult to conceive that they were not, 
in some degree, affected by it."* 
Perhaps a general idea of the extent of the earthquake can- 
not be better obtained, than by supposing the four places al- 
ready mentioned as its extreme points, namely, Bristol, Li- 
verpool, Leeds, and Norwich, to be joined by right lines, so 
as to form a quadrangle. That quadrangle will comprise, as 
accurately as such a figure can be expected to do, the parts to 
which it may reasonably be presumed to have extended. 
Respecting the effects of the earthquake in many of the 
counties abovementioned, I have not been able to collect any 
particulars which appear to me worth relating ; with regard 
* I know it has been said that earthquakes have been felt at two places distant from 
each other, and not at an intermediate place ; but I see no sufficient reason for sup- 
posing that to have been the case in the present instance. 
