A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey].

  • Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766.
Date:
1750
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Credit: A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Family neareft to this Eruption, (it being in that part of the Town where the Homes lie at a di- ftance from each other), were in the Terrors of Death 3 the Roar and Shock being much more terrible upon them, than upon others: And yet upon us at forty Miles diftance, it was very terri¬ fying and aftonifhing. Five or feven fmall Shakes were felt by us, after the firft and’ Great one, that Night, and in the Morning following : but thefc and other following Rumbles and Tremblings, were louder and greater at Newbury and the adja™ cent Places, than with us.* Benj. Coleman. II. 3At Leghorn (in Italy) from the 16th to 27th pf Jan. 1742, were felt feveral Shocks of an Earth¬ quake j the moft confiderable of which happened on the 19th and 27th, as appears by the following account of them given by a Perfon, who was then prefent. <£ At half an hour after 12 o’clock at Noon, on Jan. 19, I heard a rumbling Noife, * A Gentleman of Newbury writes upon the fame occafion —=» ss As to any previous Notices of the Approach of the Earthquake, I cannot find any thing to be depended on. The Prognoftications that have been among us have failed ; fuch as the brightnefs of the Sky beyond what was common, the twinkling of the Stars, and the like. I certainly know, that we have heard the Rumbles in all Weathers indifferently j and at all hours, (tho’ oftener in the Night during Winter) alfo when the Wind has been at any Point of the Compafs, and at all times of Tide: And as to the Moon, equally when fhe was nearer or farther from her Change and Full. One thing I may add here very remarkable, and which may be depend¬ ed on. About the middle of April, that fine Sand which w?as thrown up in feveral Places in this Parifh, at the firft Great Shock, Odl. 29, did ftink to a great degree, even fo as to be more naufeous than a putrifving Corpfe; yet in a very little while after it did not fmell at all.5’ “ Phikfophical Tranfaftfons> vol. 42, Numb, 463. pag, 77. which