Volume 2

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

  • William Stukeley
Date:
1756
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    and America. And have iikewife revifited many counties in our own ifland, and at length, on the 30th of laft September gave much the moft extenfive fhock, we have feen here in our days. It may be well expedted, that thefe frequent vifits, in themfelves fo very extraordinary, to us fo rare, and that in one year, fhould keep up our attention: and as to my own part, in¬ duce one to refled:, on what 1 before offered concerning them; and be a fufficient apology for the prefent paper. We have been acquainted, by thofe who re- member it, that in the earthquake of Nov, 17° 3, which happened in Lincolnjhire, the weather was calm, clofe, gloomy, warm, and dry ^ in a degree highly unufual, at that fea~ fon. And thus it has been with us all the yeare And from the numerous accounts we have re¬ ceived at the Royal Society, in the beginning and ending of the year 5 where any mention is made of the weather $ they all agree in the like particular. Which is confentaneous to what I remarked, as the conftant forerunner of earths quakes; and what prepares the earth's furface, for the eledtrical ftroke: which I aliened to be the caufe of them* In
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