Some considerations on the causes of earthquakes. Which were read before the Royal Society, April 5, 1750 / By Stephen Hales.

  • Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.
Date:
1750
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Credit: Some considerations on the causes of earthquakes. Which were read before the Royal Society, April 5, 1750 / By Stephen Hales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t * . f ' - 4 . SOME CONSIDERATIONS O N T H E , y \ Caufes of Earthquakes. AS the late Earthquakes in London, and fome other Parts of England\ have roufed the Attention of Man¬ kind to confider the Caufes of them, both * * in a religious and natural View : And as in a religious View they have been confi- dered by the Bifliop of Lo?idon in his excel¬ lent Letter to the Clergy and People of London and Wefiminfier, which has been re¬ ceived with general Approbation : So I fhall here give a (hort Account of what feems to me a probable natural Caufe of them. But I mu ft firft obviate an Objedtion of fome ferious well-meaning People, who are % apt