Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.
- John Shower
- Date:
- 1750
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/ [ 63 ] ed a town from the place where it flood, a great way * off. v ■ ; w Anno 1133. Matthew Paris mentions a great dark- nefs in England, and an Earthquake at the fame time. Anno 1165. He mentions another Earthquake, in the nth year of Henry the fecond, January 26. in Ely, Norfolk and Suffolk, which threw down many perfons, who were ftanding or walking ; and made the clocks to ftrike, and bells to ring in the fteeples. And in the 24th year of his reign, in the territory of Dar¬ lington, in the bifhoprick of 7 Durham, the earth lifted up herfelf in manner of an high tower, and fo remained unmoveable from morning till evening, and then fell with fo horrible a noife, as frighted the inha- bitants thereabouts ; and the earth Aval lowing it up, made there a deep pit, which is feen at this day : the pits in that place are commonly called Hell kettles. Anno 1180. A great Earthquake threw down many buildings, amongft which the cathedral church of Lin¬ coln was rent in pieces, April 25. Anno 1247. There was an 8 Earthquake in April at London, efpecially felt on the banks of the river Thames, which (hook, and threw down many build¬ ings ; and was the more terrible, becaufe thefe weftern parts are lefs accuftomed to Earthquakes. And the fame year there was little ebbing or flowing of the fea obfervable as at other times,ffor about three months. Anno 1248, The fame hiftorian mentions another Earthquake, which did a great-deal of mifchief, efpe¬ cially in the diocefe of Bath ; the bifliop whereof gave him an account of it. And this was the third which had happened within three years on this fide the Alps; one in fome parts of Savoy, and two in England; which was the more terrible, becaufe the like not known be¬ fore in thefe parts. He takes notice of another .Earth- quake in England afterward, in the year 1250. 7 Baker’s Chron. p. 58. 8 Matthew Paris. In](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30355588_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
