gardener, then' in tKe dwelling-houfe, (about a hundred yard? distant
from jis) -felt the ftone pavement of ■ the room he was in, move
. very fenfibly.
In what placé the fhock began, and whether progreffiye .dr inftan-
taneous in, the feveral places -where it was felt, is uncertain, for
want of accurately determining the precife point of time in dift^nt
placgs. k
. The fhock was'nQt equally loud or violent. Its extent was from
the idles of Scilly Eaftward as far as Lilkerd, and towards the North
* a s far as Camelford ; through which diftrid I fhall trace it according
to the beft informations I could procure.
In the ifland of St. Mary, Scilly, the fhock was,'violent : Qirthe
fhores of Cornwall, Bppofite to Scilly, (in the parifh of Senàn, near
the Land’s End) the noife was heard like that of a fpinning-wheel
on a chamber-floor: below flairs, there!was a"cry that the houfe
was fhaking; and the btafs pans and pewter rattled one againfh
andther in feveral houfes in the fame parifh. In the adjoining parifh
of St. Juft, two young men, being then fwimming, felpa ftrong
and very,ùnufùal agitation of théhea. In.iïliè town- ôfj^û.zaneéi
in, one houfc the chamber bell rung, ?ih^aj$|ther the pewter| plates,
placed edgeways on a fhelf, fhifted,^arid.flid;:tb; one (end of the
fhdf; and it was every-where perceived mote Oriels, according-a?
peoples attention was engaged.
At Trevailer, the Seat qf William . Veale, Efq*; about twoTipilgg
from Penzance, the noife was heard, and thqught at firft, to,, be.
thunder : the windows fhoofc, ana’the walls'fgf- the parlour, where
Mr. Veale fat, vifibly moved. The jarring qf ■, the .wipnows-GQhti-
nued near half a minute, but the. motion of the wall^not'.' quite .fb
long ; and fbme mafons being at work on a|cqjdti^ddu? rfjsw building
» the upright poles o f the fcaSblds fhook fb (violently, tjhat, for
fear of falling, they laid hold on the walls, which, ^tq. their ftill
greater furprize, they found agitated in the fame manner and,a
perfon prefent, who was at London at the time of the twqfhocks,
in the year 1751 , thought this, fhock to refemble the fécond, both
in degree and duration \
A t Marazion, the next market town Eaft of Penzance, the houfes
o f feveral perfbns fhook to that degree, that people ran out into the
ftreet, left the houfes fhould fall upon them. In the borough of
St. Ives, on the North Sea, fix miles North of Penzance, the fhock
was fo violent, that a gentleman, who had been at Lifbon during
feveral fhocks, faid, that this exceeded all he had met with, except
that on the 1 ft of November, 1755,.. fb fatal to that city, v
fe fc e g Bafla,s Efq$,tie room ihooki
, and the grqurids, Without d < « a „ere obferraè to move. T i e fhock
.w p t fa t e f to a i j at Redruth, a *€ o lu B b„Botfman,; %c. along to
v f -O^1 n ' ls a^ utw g p x ilje s fr.orp,;thq/iiles-of Scillv. From
in | H ma as
H l r i i ;buüat m W Wê ê ê m of Loflwfy—
that RÉÉ few, merfoifffit
! wm ftill lefs .fenfible at, Loo a n r t ^ o u tH ^ fcarcely fefhcient to
■> • f cyp%g$t;e; cumnM^nvi£pbv>> y, ' A
.i.;o'litome§.,0ldts duration wei^ various. • At;keneggfitp'thought
the no;^ could ,not have, lafted a b f e fixTe loh* ; a t T r e v a S »
§ § 1 B Q diftanti-tofthe^efts | | was^thqqgh#to havé.'dafted, n & l
half a minute; m. J e parifh ofjG^ynMalftalmtfufe^aeLudg-
,van, three ip4esfE^'op{RqgzWhjf tKefnbifèwas'TaÖiehl©r#eï: than f
:half a minute ; hut the .fhaking felt in i g gafdeiv MHb f i t ó i n
the hdufes, effort,, and a monfen tanjiM In-'iQemd.W’it-vvork, Teven
vmues. E^t- of Penzance, itvflaftedü-onlyja’. few feqondsj hut -in-the
llfes of, Scilly, 1 it was computed, aq/ortjy * feèondi \.
-r,So WPS »this-Earthquake felt (in, teWhs^houfesi and grounds adja-
.cent-; but ftill more,particularly alarming in' our-miries/S^ere the|e;
iHefs refugp, ^and pqfi^qpently-a'greater tdread, from ^(hè trerhofV''
of the,eartmtv{
ïn C^north A i t n h W p a r i f h ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ® f enflbly,
felt,-eighteen fathom Aeepq in the* mine,-.calkd'xBofWclèhgJdowiïÊ
smote-than thirty fathom. ,
At Huel-rith mine, in- the parifh of vLa!nnant, people • the ?
earth move under them, firft quick,, then in-a flower Wavy *tu nvr*;
and the ftage boards of the,little winds or fhafts, twenty fathom
.deep, were perceived to move.
In Herland mine, commonly-called the Manor j(in .the marifh of
of Gwymeij, the noife was heard fifty-five^and fixty fathom deep,
,ps ft a ftuddfeT had broke, and the deads-were fet a.tunning: If
Was nothing like the noife of thunder.
■ In Ghace-water ifiine,,, the fam,e noife was' heard, afélèaft .feventy
fathom under the furfoqe.
- At Huel-rith mine,.hear Godolphin, the Abife was" feemkgjy
ündqineath. I felt (fays the dfeedtor of the mine) dhe?4 ftth mdve
under me, with a- prodigious fwift, and apparently horizOlital ;tre-
mor j its1 continuance was but for a few feconds of timef- not-like
thunder, but rather a dull, rumbling, even found, Hkè d-feads-cun»-
ning under ground. In-the Smith’s fhopthewindow-leayes fhook,
|fnd thfeH%ting of the hpufe crapkedj the Whinv-hbifte fhook To
TrehaiAj E%; d The Ioofe rubbifh. and bfolfet^ftpne» of the
. ' A tunber-fuppdroof the deads. ' mine. .V-N’
Q . " terribly,I’