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Marshes leapt above a foot and an high from their ponds, and the same appearance was noticed here at Mosquito Point; the waters, the men of war, and other ships in and to prove how violent the stroke was upon these seas, received such a shock, that the seamen imagined they had struck or run

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I remember that in Donah's account of the earthquake felt at Turin, in the year 1755, contained in his letters to Abraham Trembly, which are epitomised in the philosophical transactions of the year 1766, the following query is offered:

Whether there is not a great co-operation of electricity in the production of earthquakes? and this query was brought up forcibly to my recollection, from what I felt upon this occasion, which I have already described.

For if earthquakes are solely owing to the causes that have been usually assigned, whence proceeded those sensations which I never experienced, save under the action of electricity? and whence the dead calm, and motionless state of the clouds, which, for an hour before the shock, almost suffocated ma

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Moreover, the sound immediately preceding the earthquake, so exactly resembled the noise of thunder, that, taking every circumstance into consideration, the query of Donah deserves to be noticed with attention. benou

If explosion from pent-up steam, or other subterranean theory of earthquake, were only to be taken into consideration in explaining these appearances, how comes it to pass that congenial symptoms of the atmosphere, &c. were felt in Sumatra, during the earthquake at Lisbon in the year 1755?

Besides, the electric feelings of the people here, prior to the great shock, were felt more severely on the mountains than on the low lands, which does not correspond to the modern theories of Mitchel, and other approved writers, on the subject of earthquakes.

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In the account of the earthquake felt at London in the year 1749, communicated by Martin Folkes to the royal society, it is mentioned, that fishes leapt above a foot and an half high from their ponds, and the same appearance was noticed here at Mosquito Point; and to prove how violent the stroke was upon the waters, the men of war, and other ships in these seas, received such a shock, that the seamen imagined they had struck or run ashore.

, I remember that in Donah's account of the earthquake felt at Turin, in the year 1755, contained in his letters to Abraham Trembly, which are epitomised in the philosophical transactions of the year 1766, the following query is offered:

Whether there is not a great co-operation of electricity in the production of earthquakes? and this query was brought up forcibly to my recollection, from what I felt upon this occasion, which I have already described.

For if earthquakes are solely owing to the causes that have been usually assigned, whence proceeded those sensations which I never experienced, save under the action of electricity? and whence the dead calm, and motionless state of the clouds, which, for an hour before the shock, almost suffocated ma

ny people here, obliging them at midnight to get out of bed and sit in their piazzas?

Moreover, the sound immediately preceding the earthquake, so exactly resembled the noise, of thunder, that, taking every circumstance into consideration, the query of Donah deserves to be noticed with attention. benou

If explosion from pent-up steam, or other subterranean theory of earthquake, were only to be taken into consideration in explaining these appearances, how comes it to pass that congenial symptoms of the atmosphere, &c. were felt in Sumatra, during the earthquake at Lisbon in the year 1755?

Besides, the electric feelings of the people here, prior to the great shock, were felt more severely on the mountains than on the low lands, which does not correspond to the modern theories of Mitchel, and other approved writers, on the subject of earthquakes.

In our case, the mountains continued almost incessantly tremulous, while, on the low lands, there were spaces of an hour between the shocks, which would not comport with the theory of steam acting by the communication of the strata, as conjectured by Mitchel.

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Vesuvius, and so anciently, if I remember right, as by Pliny.

In my feelings, prior to this earthquake of ours, I have not been singular; as you will remember, from the account given by Ulloa, of the symptoms felt at Cadiz in the year 1755, during the earthquake at Lisbon. Almost every body there suffered, either by the head-ach, convulsive attacks, sudden languors, flying pains, and an oppression of spirits, with sickness, purgings, and vomitings, for hours before any tremulation of the earth was observed.

Dr Shehely in his philosophy of earthquakes mentions similar circumstances relating to the experience of the people at London, during the time of this great catastrophe.

For my own part, I mean to draw no inferences, nor to aim at the folly of a system, but only to relate to your Lordship what I felt during the late earthquakes in our island.

Gleanings of Literature, continued.

:. SIR,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BEE.

(July 25. 1792.)

ALTHOUGH the authors of the Theory of

Moral Sentiments, and the Rambler, have

contributed to bring into discredit every kind

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