Consequences of s/ue

the Air; and the vapour of it also titad? ^stint to struggle through the Pores of d ■Earth into the open Air, in (uch quantity &to affect the fence; a sulphurous scent havistj?been observed in the Air both before and af-ter the Concussion.

It is moreover very remarkable,That th^Were some particular spots which were not 3all stirred in those Countreys where the p' 3 'ces not far dillant round about were shake 11 ’os SturlriJge-Fair before remembred, 311 •that where my Dwelling is; neither my b'nor any of my Family, though they w ereabove stairs, nor any of our near Neigh'bours being sensible of the least motion ^impression of it, and yet those living with'in less then half a mile had their Houses con-siderably shaken by it.

It is also worth the noting,That both th jS ’and all other Earthquakes I have heard o(read of in England^ have been very fhott,and finished at one explosion ; which b 311argument that the Cavities and Cuttictd*’wherein the enflamed matter is containsand moves, are very strait and of final 1 d 1 'mepsions.. Explosion I call it, because by s h equickness of the motion it seems rather i0 _resemble that of Powder in a Gun, then th 3of a Squif), running in a Train of Powd er 'Though others I have read of whose mQt* 0 ^