Volume 2

The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious, Or An inquiry into their cause, and their purpose. ... / By William Stukeley.

  • Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.
Date:
1756
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious, Or An inquiry into their cause, and their purpose. ... / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Earth q_u a k e s# y In May laft, we had a paper read at the Royal Society, concerning the fecond earthquake felt by us at London, on the 8 th of March. A fliepherd belonging to Mr. Secretary Fox at Kenftngton (the iky being perfe£tly ferene, and clear) was much furprifed with a very extra¬ ordinary noife in the air, rolling over his head, as if cannon clofe by. He likewife thought, that it came from the north-weft, and went to the fouth-eaft: a motion quite contrary, to what mu ft have been the cafe, if it were really of cannon. This noife palled milling by him s and inftantly he faw the ground (a dry, and folid fpot) wave under him, like the face of the river. The tall trees of the avenue, where he was, nodded their tops very fenfibly, and qui¬ vered like a fhaken fpear. The flock of fheep immediately took fright, and ran all away to¬ gether, as if dogs had purfued them. A great rookery in the place, were equally alarmed, and after an univerfal clangor, flew away; no lefs than if chaced by hawks. I was likewife informed, that in the fame earthquake, a great parcel of hens, and chic¬ kens, kept at that time in Grays-hm-lane, upon the (hock, ran to the rooft, affrighted. And the like was obferved of pigeons. And in our laft account of the earthquake from Northampw tqn} ?tis remarked, that the birds in cages put