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

  • Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.
Date:
1750
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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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    not accuftomed to. So the earthquake affeCts all thole of weak nerves5 or that have nervous complaints; obnoxious to hyfterics, colics, rheumatick pains in their joints; feveral wo¬ men were feized with violent head-achs, be¬ fore both the fhocks we felt in London. It was this that gave the people a fhortnefs of breath. Mr. Smith from Peterborough fpeaks of a perfon that found himfelf very lick upon it. This made the dog run whining about the room, feekingto get out: this made the fifhes leap up in the pond at Southwark ; like as the experiment of electrifying the fiihes : it makes them fick. And this caufcs the birds in cages to hide their heads under their wings, becaufe they cannot fly away. Which is com¬ monly obferv'd of them in Italy, and coun¬ tries, where earthquakes are more frequent. 11 ly, X obferve, the fhepherd at Kenjington thought the motion of the earthquake, and the found, was from the north-weft to ioutn-eaft; the like Mr. W, Smith from Peterborough. On the contrary, Mr. Byfield the fcarlet dyer in Southwark, thought the noife came from the river below bridge, and went toward Wejlminjler ; where it rattled fo, that he did not doubt, but that the abbey- church was beaten down. Dr. ParJons took pains to find out the way of the motion of the earthquake, from the different pofition of people's beds ; but from the contra-