Memoirs of George Berkeley Dd Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland
Memoirs of George Berkeley Dd Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
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] To the PUBLISHER. SIR, Having obferved it hath been offered, as a reafon to perfuade the public that the late mocks felt in and about London were not caufed by an earthquake, becaufe the motion was lateral, which, it is aflerted, the motion of an earthquake never is, I take upon me to affirm the contrary. I have myfelf felt an earthquake at Mef- fma ExTRActs, &c. Fina, in the year 171 8> when the motion was horizontal or lateral. It did no harm in that city, but threw down feve- ral houfes ab...out a day's journey from thence. We are not to think the late mocks merely an airquake, as they call it, on account of ligns and changes in the air* fuch being ufually obferved to attend earthquakes* There is a correfpondence between the fubterraneous air and our atmofphere* It is probable that florins, or great concuflions of the air, do often* if not always, owe their origin to vapours or exhalations ifTuing from below. I remember to have heard count Tez- zani, at Catania, fay, that fome hours be- fore the memorable earthquake of 1692, which overturned the whole city, he ob- ferved a line extended in the air, pro- ceedingi as he judged, from exhalations poifed and fufpended in the atmofphere ; alfo that he heard a hollow, frightful murmur, about a minute before the (hock.
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