37 6‘ -Dr. Gray's Account of the Earthquake 
Some persons thought this earthquake was most severely 
felt in high situations ; others remarked that some low places 
were just as much affected : upon the whole, there does not 
seem room for any material inference on this head. 
That the waters about Nottingham should not, according to 
Dr. Storer’s observation, have suffered any remarkable agi- 
tation or elevation, may be thought surprising ; especially when 
it is recollected that the earthquake of November i, 1755, 
which was so fatal to the city of Lisbon, occasioned an unusual 
agitation of the waters in various parts of this kingdom, 
without occasioning any perceptible motion of the earth in 
those parts* A similar circumstance, however, is recorded by 
M. Bertrand, respecting an earthquake which was very se- 
vere in many parts of Switzerland, on December 9, 1755, but 
which, as he says, produced little or no agitation of the lakes 
there; whereas a very considerable one had been produced in 
them by the earthquake of November 1, in the same year, 
though it was but slightly felt upon the earth. -f 
“ attends an earthquake, no such thing happened now; a fine gale of wind blowing 
“ before and after, as well as during the time of, the shock.” (See Phil Trans. Vol. 
LII. page 156.) M. Bertrand also, speaking of an earthquake felt at Zuric, Decem- 
ber 9, 1755, sa y s > “ Le tremblement etoit accompagne d’un vent violent, que quelques 
“ personnes ont apperju des le commencement, d’autres a la fin des ebranlemens.” 
See Recueil de divers Traite's sur VHistoire Naturelle de la Terre, par M. E. Ber- 
trand, page 289. 
• See Phil. Trans. Vol. XLIX. page 351, et seq. 
f Of so remarkable a circumstance, it may not be amiss to give M. Bertrand’s 
account in his own words : “ A Vevey, les rues le long du lac ont ete plus agitees ; les 
“ cloches ont donne du son ; quelques vases ont ete renverses ; des portes ont ete 
“ ouvertes ; des tuiles sont tombees des toits. &c. — Ni a Vevey, ni ailleurs, sur les 
“ bords du lac Leman, on n’a apperju aucune hausse de ses eaux. II est bien re- 
“ marquable que les lacs de la Suisse aient ete plus emus du tremblement de terre du 
