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TO
Martin Folkes, Eſq.; Ll. D.
Preſident of the Royal Society.
Since I had the honour to lay before the Society, in the ſpring, my thoughts upon earthquakes: we have had many further opportunities of reflecting upon that moſt awful, and hitherto unuſual appearance. An earthquake was felt at Eaſtwell in Kent, on monday, march 12, and on ſunday, march 18, at Portſmouth, the Iſle of Wight, Southampton, and along the coaſt of Suſſex, the iſles of Guernſey, Jerſey. April 2, a ſmart earthquake at Mancheſter, Liverpool, Taunton, Bath, Flint, Lancaſter, Wrexham, reaching 40 miles north and ſouth: 70 miles eaſt and weſt. Since then at Rome, Naples, Leghorn; in the ſouth of France, and at Pau under the Pyrenean mountains; Oporto, at S. Macaire in Guienne, Meſſina in Sicily, Munich in Bavaria, &c. &c. ſo that the year 1750, may rather be called the year of earthquakes, than of jubilee. For ſince
