Account of the Effects of the late Earth-
quake in feveral Parts of Europe. THE
Continued from Vol. X. p. 510.

out The of November THE earthquake which was felt

earthquake, threw out a prodigious

torrent of red water, which feems to prove that it contained much cinabar, and other minerals of that kind.

Kick the ground, but after heaving S felt in many parts of this country

of Languedoc. The river Etrien, in the Vivarais, has washed away half the town of Beauchatel, with the church and church-yard; and the other half is deftroyed by the waters from the mountains. A hill covered with vines and olives at the end of this village, in the night between the 1st and 2d of this month, fell into the great road, which is thereby quite ftopped up. Near the fame fpot we ufed to fee vaft precipices and fome ridges of rocks that were covered with water, which have difappeared, and next day ftood in their place a plain with vines and olives, planted with the exactest regularity.

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Germany.

N earthquake was felt the 9th and 11th of December in Franconia, Wurtenburg, Swabia, Brifgau, and Alface, and almoft every other province of this vaft empire. At Toplitz the water of the bath first turned thick, and then became as ted as blood, but after a fhort interval returned to its colour, and flowed with much greater rapidity

than before.

Cologn, Dec. 9.

earthquake,were felt here. A few minutes after midnight we had one more violent, which was foon followed by another; and at the fame time a noife was heard like the difcharge of cannon at a distance A very violent wind rofe fuddenly, and blew fome time with great impetuofity. The people all quitted their houses, and are fcarcely yet recovered from their confternation. Some officers who were upon guard at the citadel declare they faw at midnight a luminous arch in the firmament, which extended from Maeftricht to the Flamand country. In the part of the city fituate on the other fide of the Meufe the fhocks were more violent, threw down chimneys, and fhattered fome houses; and feveral boats and barges on the Meufe were funk hy the violence of the wind and agitation of the water. At Chefnay, a town about a league from hence, and in other neighbouring places, fome houfes were thrown down. Few have clofed their eyes these three nights. A faft, and general proceflions for three days, are appointed, in order to appeafe the Almighty by acts of peni

THE late earthquake was felt tence, and to implore his mercy.

from the to east,
from the Rhine to the Lech, and
from the N. towards the S. from

Ingolstadt, Donwerth, Nurembergs
Cronstadt, and Stutgard, to Luferne,
Geneva, and Lyons, Avignon and
Montpellier. The fhock was fo great
at Lyons, that the caftle of Greil-
lon, fituate at the foot of Pierre-en-
Cice, funk 8 feet, and feveral hou-
fes in the neighbourhood were thrown
down.

Dec. 11, Again at Prague and
Toplitz: At this laft place the wa-
ter turned as red as blood.-In the
electorate of Bavaria. The magnifi-
cent caftle of Brufchal in the Pala-
tinate was almost shaken down.

Liege, Dec. 29. AST Friday, about fix in the evening, two flight shocks of an

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Leyden, Nov. 4. N Saturday laft, in the forenoon, the water in the five fal vers feveral canals, and lakes, was agitated to fuck a violent degree, that at Woubrugge, Alphen, Bothoop, and Rotterdam, buoys were broken from their chains. large veffels fnapped their cables, fmaller ones were thrown out of the water on the land, and others lying on the land were fet afloat: In the lake of Harlem particularly, the courfe of a veffel on full fail was fuddenly fufpended, and the rudder unhung. No motion on land, of the houfes or other buildings was felt. During the time of this agitation, which continued near four minutes, not only the water in the

manner

of

of fluids in fmaller quantities, as in coolers, tubs, backs, &c. was equally agitated, and dafhed over the fides, notwithstanding no motion was perceptible in the containing veffels. In fuch fmall quantities alfo, the furface of the water had apparently a direct afcent, prior to its turbulent motion, and, in many places, even the rivers and canals rofe twelve inches perpendicular. It is afferted alfo from Amsterdam, that, during this interval, the mercury in the barome ter, which about this time was uncommonly high, defcended inftantly near two inches, and made feveral confequent vibrations.

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Amfterdam, Nov. 7. HE late extraordinary agitation of the water extended beyond Utrecht, and alfo fouthward to Brabant; where, in the district of Hertogenbosch, it lafted near half an hour, occafioning wrecks of veffels, long fince funk, to rife to the furface, and float for feveral minutes, notwithstanding there was not the leaft wind, nor any motion discovered in the land.

At Lubeck in Holstein, the water in the Trave rofe four or five feet perpendicular in an inftant, by which

motion the ship of Capt. Panders fnapped its cables, and great damage was done to other veffels. The agitation of the waters is faid to have afted nine minutes; and it appears every where, indeed to have lafted proportionable to the height of the inftantaneous afcent. the height Gluckstad and other places there are From alfo fimilar accounts, all agreeing that not the leaft motion was obfervable on the land.

And letters from Bruffels mention that it was felt very fenfibly through the whole courfe of the rivers Wefer and Elbe.

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Rotterdam, No. 28. HE master of a vessel just arrived from Seville, reports, that on the 8th of November, at 9 in the morning, 30 leagues S. W. of Cape Finefterre, in a stark calm,

and on a fudden, his fhip danced and rolled in fuch a manner, that he thought the mafts must have gone by the board.

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Amfterdam, Dec. 4. HE captain of a Dutch veffet, which failed from St. Ubes on reports, that at a quarter before ten, the ft ult. about 8 in the morning, being about a league and a half from mount Sizembre, which is about 6 or 7 leagues from St. Ubes, he felt fame time faw that mountain rend, a violent fhock in his ship, and at the and feveral large rocks roll from it into the fea, with a vaft and horrid noise. ed with a thick fog, occafioned by Immediately after the fky was cover. the fall of the rocks into the water. The capt. further fays, that the fhock was repeated at different interferved a thick fmoke at N. N. E. vals till fun fet, at which time he obdiftant 7 or eight leagues, and foon after flames, which continued all night. The light of the fun, and the diftance intercepted them from his fight next morning.

Sweden and Norway.

THE earthquake of the 1ft of
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ces of this country, but did little da-
Nov. was felt in many provin-
agitated. In Iceland an earthquake
mage; all the waters were ftrongly
was felt the beginning of October,
and Hecla, the volcano there, emit-
ted great quantities of fire.
Hufewig the parfonage house and 12
habitants efcaped with their cattle,
others were thrown down. The in-
but the winter provifions are entirely
which was before very clear, changed
fpoiled; the water of a small rivulet,
to the colour of milk.

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At

At Sea, Lat. 25, Long. 40. HE mafter of a veffel bound to this latitude and longitude, writing in the American iflands, being in his cabbin, heard a violent noife, as he imagined, in the fteerage; while

he

he was afking what was the matter the fhip was put into a ftrange agitation, which he fays feemed as if fhe had been fuddenly jerked up, and fufpended by a ftring faftened to the maft head. He immediately ftarted up with great terror and aftonishment, and looking out at the cabbin window, plainly difcovered land at the distance of about a mile; upon this he haftily ordered the lead to be thrown, fuppofing the hip might have ftruck; but coming upon deck, the land which he had feen was not to be found, but he perceived with great amazement a violent current crofs the 'fhip's way to the leeward; in about a minute this current returned with great impetuofity, and within a league he faw three craggy pointed rocks throwing up water of various colours, refembling liquid fire. This phenomenon in about two minutes ended in a black cloud, which afcended very heavily; after it rofe above the horrifon no rock was to be feen, and the agitation of the water foon fubfided, tho' the cloud ftill afcending was long vifible, the weather being extremely clear.

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Boftm, New-England, Nov. 26. Shock of an earthquake that began about half an hour after four in the morning on Tuesday laft, and continued two minutes, fhook the tiles from the top of almost every house in town, threw down many chimneys, and fhattered the brick buildings, which fpread fo general a pannick, that no hody went to bed for feveral nights afterwards, tho no life was loft. The fame fhock was felt at Philadelphia and New-York, but with lefs damage.

N the ft of November, about two in the afternoon the fea. ebbed and flowed in a moft furpri fing manner; it ran over the wharfs into the houses, and at the old bridge brought up numbers of fish of feveral forts.

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Kinfale, Nov. 2. Efterday in the afternoon, when the tide had ebbed fome time, it fuddenly returned with a violence and impetuofity impoffible to describe. A floop of 60 tons which lay at anchor in a creek, fecure, even if a hurricane blew, was torn away from her moorings, and two new cables broke like two threads, by the force of the current, for a breath of wind did not blow, and drove afhore in a moment: The fifhing-boats were whirled about like fo many corks, and with a motion as quick as the fly of a jack. By special providence the boats were juft returned from fea, with the failors on board, or they would have been all dafhed to pieces against each other; thofe that were empty, and had no people to manage them, funk directly in the eddy water as in a whirl-pool. Some others were driven with a great violence on the land, where they muft remain until got off by great labour. These fudden and furprifing fluxes and refluxes of the fea continued from three in the afternoon till ten at night, feldom more than a quarter of an hour between each return. The waters did not rife gradually, but, with a hollow and horred noife, rushed in like a deluge, and rofe fix or feven feet in a minute, and as suddenly fubfided. It was as thick as puddle, very black, and flunk intollerably. We hear that fome fhocks of an earthquake were felt yesterday at Cork.

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Cork,

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Cork, Nov. 1.

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Tenterden, Nov. 12. "HIS morning at half an hour N Saturday the 1ft inftant beafter nine two fhocks of an earthquake were felt here at about half a minute's interval; the limits of the places affected were, fouthward, Watergate-lane, Chrift-churchlane, and Playhoufe-ftreet; north ward, Broad-lane, Coal-kay, and Draw-bridge. I do not find that it was felt more easterly than ald. Bradfhaw's, nor more wefterly than Hammond's Marth. The limits were fo narrow, I incline to think that the great torrent of waters that ran down the river Lee has found a paffage through the middle part of our city.

Portsmouth, No. 3. N faturday laft his Majefty's hip Golport was carried into the dock to be cleaned; about half an hour past ten in the morning The was obferved to pitch forward with her head deep in the water, and immediately to recover it and pitch as deep in with her ftern; the water about her was greatly agitated, and the dock-gates forced open about fix inches.

At a very confiderable diftance is a large baton, which has not the leaft communication with this dock, and in it are the Berwick, Naffau, Dover, and another large fhip; these at the fame inftant felt the fhock, but instead of pitching they rolled very violently; none of thofe who were on the land could perceive earth either under or about them to

move,

Cranbrook in Kent, Nov. 8. AST Saturday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock, the weather being very calm, feveral ponds near this town were obferved to have a very extraordinary motion, flowing like the tea after a ftorm. The water fwelled three or four feet above its common level, and in one pond rofe to high and violent as to break down the banks. The fame rhænomena was feen at Horfmanden and other places in Kent.

tween 10 and 1 in the morning, being the very day, hour, and probably minute, that the great bafon at Portsmouth is faid to have been disturbed, feveral ponds in this place and neighbourhood, without any fenfible motion of the earth, were greatly agitated; the water being forced up the banks with great violence, foaming, fretting, and roaring like the coming in of the tide. Some are faid to have flowed up three times in this manner, others circled round in eddies, absorbing leaves, fticks, &c. It does not appear that all our ponds were thus agitated; and it is reasonable think it could affect fuch only as have fprings.

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