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Earthquakes explained and practically improved
Earthquakes explained and practically improved: occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8. 1692. in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea. / By Thomas Doolittle, M.A. The author also of the treatise on the Lords-Supper. ; Jamaica's miseries show London's mercies. Both compared.Earthquakes explained and practically improved: occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8. 1692. in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea. / By Thomas Doolittle, M.A. The author also of the treatise on the Lords-Supper. ; Jamaica's miseries shew London's mercies. Both compared.
printed by Benjamin Harris & are to be sold, 1693
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. One fore-going sign of an Earthquake, they teach, is, a certain troubling of Waters in the deepest Wells, and in Fountains, having then a Tincture of a Sulphureous taste, and an infected and stinking ••vour: Because from the subterraneous ⟨p. 32⟩commotions the Waters in the Wells must needs be troubled Therefore […] reported of P•• recides the Phi••soph•r, that b• Wa•er drawn out of a Well, he […] foretold the Lacedaemonians the Ruin of the City by an Earthquake
1. One fore-going sign of an Earthquake, they teach, is, a certain troubling of Waters in the deepest Wells, and in Fountains, having then a Tincture of a Sulphureous taste, and an infected and stinking ••vour: Because from the subterraneous ⟨p. 32⟩commotions the Waters in the Wells must needs be troubled Ther•fore 〈…〉 repor•ed of P•• recides the Phi••soph•r, that b• Wa•er drawn out of a Well, he 〈…〉 foretold the Lacedaem•nians the Ruin of the City by an Earthquake