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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.
2. When the Se• doth suddenly swell, not being caused so to do by Winds and Waves, when the Air is still and calm, and no blasts of Winds, yet on a sudden the Sea swells, and the Ships thereon do shake: The reason is, because then the Earth in the bottom of the Sea is moved.
2. When the Se• doth suddenly swell, not being caused so to do by VVinds and VVaves, when the Air is still and calm, and no blasts of VVinds, yet on a sudden the Sea swells, and the Ships thereon do shake: The reason is, because then the Earth in the bottom of the Sea is moved.
3. When Birds sit trembling on the ground, forsaking Trees, because they perceive a certain trembling, shaking the Trees and the Roots thereof▪
3. VVhen Birds sit trembling on the ground, forsaking Trees, because they perceive a certain trembling, shaking the Trees and the Roots thereof▪
4. When there are great and terrible sounds in the Earth, and roarings and noises in the Caverns of the Earth.
4. VVhen there are great and terrible sounds in the Earth, and roarings and noises in the Caverns of the Earth.