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I.—Notes on Earthquakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Joseph Prestwich
Affiliation:
President Geological Society of London.

Extract

Sir,—I beg to send you a notice, seemingly made with much care, respecting the origin and occurrences of earthquakes in England, which I find among some MSS. of an ancestor of mine, who, towards the end of last century, was an active Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. It is curious as a record of the crude notions on volcanic phenomena prevalent to so near our times, and may be of some interest as a list—albeit imperfeot—of the numerous earthquakes noted in a country where earthquake-movements are exceptional occurrences, and as a record of some peculiar phenomena which, notwithstanding the quaint and pretentious narration, have considerable geological interest. According to this record, the earthquakes were distributed as under by centuries and seasons.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1870

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