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344 REMARKABLE EARTHQUAKES IN ENGLAN0.
over it was thrown clown, as was a chimney in Leadenhall
Street, another in Billiter Square, and several chimnies
and part of a house near Horselydown. This earthquake
was attended with a flat noise, but not very loud. The
weather had been rainy and dose for some days. That
morning there had been a thick fog, and at the time of the
shock the air was remarkably calm.
Thursday, March 8, 1749—50.-—Between five and six
in the morning, another earthquake was felt in London
and Westminster, more violent, and attended with a
greater noise than the former, the sound, as in many other
places already mentioned, resembling a hollow distant
thunder.—Just before the shock a ball of fire was seen in
the air to the west of the city.—The shock (like that in
1580, and many others in England, as well as the great
earthquake at Lima in 1687,) was of the vibratory kind.—
People were shook in their beds with a violent motion,
which with the noise of the earthquake and rattling of the
windows, awoke almost all who were asleep, and in an in-
stant, as far as it extended, filled every one with con-
sternation,
A spring burst out in a cellar at the corner of Dean
Street, Fetter Lane; and the next day the water was gone
as remarkable as it came, and the floor left as dry as if no
water had been there, T wo stacks of chimnies, and part
of a building in Bermondsey Street, were thrown down,
and one stack of chimnies on Saffron Hill, At Islington,
the bells at several gentlemen’s doors rang, as if pulled by
a sudden jerk.-—It seemed to roll along from west to east,
like a wave in a violent storm, and was sensibly felt as far
as Epping in Essex, as also at Chiselhurst, Beckenham,
and Croydon ; at the two last places the hammers of the
clocks struck against the bells.—It is asserted by many,
that this was preceded by a small shock, at about two iii
the morning.
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over it was thrown clown, as was a chimney in Leadenhall
Street, another in Billiter Square, and several chimnies
and part of a house near Horselydown. This earthquake
was attended with a flat noise, but not very loud. The
weather had been rainy and dose for some days. That
morning there had been a thick fog, and at the time of the
shock the air was remarkably calm.
Thursday, March 8, 1749—50.-—Between five and six
in the morning, another earthquake was felt in London
and Westminster, more violent, and attended with a
greater noise than the former, the sound, as in many other
places already mentioned, resembling a hollow distant
thunder.—Just before the shock a ball of fire was seen in
the air to the west of the city.—The shock (like that in
1580, and many others in England, as well as the great
earthquake at Lima in 1687,) was of the vibratory kind.—
People were shook in their beds with a violent motion,
which with the noise of the earthquake and rattling of the
windows, awoke almost all who were asleep, and in an in-
stant, as far as it extended, filled every one with con-
sternation,
A spring burst out in a cellar at the corner of Dean
Street, Fetter Lane; and the next day the water was gone
as remarkable as it came, and the floor left as dry as if no
water had been there, T wo stacks of chimnies, and part
of a building in Bermondsey Street, were thrown down,
and one stack of chimnies on Saffron Hill, At Islington,
the bells at several gentlemen’s doors rang, as if pulled by
a sudden jerk.-—It seemed to roll along from west to east,
like a wave in a violent storm, and was sensibly felt as far
as Epping in Essex, as also at Chiselhurst, Beckenham,
and Croydon ; at the two last places the hammers of the
clocks struck against the bells.—It is asserted by many,
that this was preceded by a small shock, at about two iii
the morning.
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