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IN ENGLAND, AND ELSEWHERE.
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county ; it began with a noise like a flat rumbling, distant
thunder, yet so loud as to awaken people in their beds.—
The earth moved very sensibly three several times, each
motion beiim at about half an hour’s distance from the
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other. The night following was attended with another of
a less kind, yet not without noise.
January 4, 1680.-—About seven in the morning an
earthquake was felt at Chedsey, in Somersetshire, which
extended some miles round. It shook the houses pretty
much, and was attended with a noise resembling a sudden
gust of wind ; or, as others imagined, the shock and noise
was not unlike that of some great thing thrown upon the
ground. It was of very short continuance. The air was
very calm, it having been a frosty night, and the snow
which fell the day before lying upon the ground.
September 17, 1683.—There was one at Oxford, It
was preceded by a remarkable calmness in the air; it shook
the earth with a tremulous and vibratory motion extremely
quick; the pulses were a little discontinued, and yet they
came so thick that there was no reckoning them, though
the whole earthquake continued here scarce more than six
seconds of time. As tremulous and vibratory motions are
proper to produce sounds, so this earthquake was accom-
panied with a hollow murmuring, like a distant thunder;
which sound kept time so exactly with the motion, and
and was so conformable to it in all respects, that it plainly
appeared there was the same reason for both.
September 8, 1691.—At two in the aftern.oqn, an earth-
quake was felt at Deal, Canterbury, Sandwich, and Ports-
mouth. The houses were shaken, the pewter and brass
tottered on the shelves, and several chimneys were thrown
down ; this earthquake was said to continue near six
minutes.
December 28, 1703.—An earthquake was felt at Hull,
about three or four minutes after five in the evening ; it
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county ; it began with a noise like a flat rumbling, distant
thunder, yet so loud as to awaken people in their beds.—
The earth moved very sensibly three several times, each
motion beiim at about half an hour’s distance from the
o
other. The night following was attended with another of
a less kind, yet not without noise.
January 4, 1680.-—About seven in the morning an
earthquake was felt at Chedsey, in Somersetshire, which
extended some miles round. It shook the houses pretty
much, and was attended with a noise resembling a sudden
gust of wind ; or, as others imagined, the shock and noise
was not unlike that of some great thing thrown upon the
ground. It was of very short continuance. The air was
very calm, it having been a frosty night, and the snow
which fell the day before lying upon the ground.
September 17, 1683.—There was one at Oxford, It
was preceded by a remarkable calmness in the air; it shook
the earth with a tremulous and vibratory motion extremely
quick; the pulses were a little discontinued, and yet they
came so thick that there was no reckoning them, though
the whole earthquake continued here scarce more than six
seconds of time. As tremulous and vibratory motions are
proper to produce sounds, so this earthquake was accom-
panied with a hollow murmuring, like a distant thunder;
which sound kept time so exactly with the motion, and
and was so conformable to it in all respects, that it plainly
appeared there was the same reason for both.
September 8, 1691.—At two in the aftern.oqn, an earth-
quake was felt at Deal, Canterbury, Sandwich, and Ports-
mouth. The houses were shaken, the pewter and brass
tottered on the shelves, and several chimneys were thrown
down ; this earthquake was said to continue near six
minutes.
December 28, 1703.—An earthquake was felt at Hull,
about three or four minutes after five in the evening ; it
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