The New Hampshire Gazette

LONDON.

Extract of a Letter from St. Colomb, in Cornwall, July 22.

On Friday last, a few Minutes after 6 in the Evening, was felt at this Place, and all the Neighbourhood, a Shock of an Earthquake, which thro' the Providence of God, did no other Damage than frightning the several Persons who felt it. It was preceded by an horrible rumbling Noise, louder than Thunder, and the Shock continued for about half a Minute, in some Places longer. By certain Accounts from Redruth, we find, that the vast Piece of Machinery, the Fire Engine, at North-Downs, was instantaneously stopped by the Violence of the Shock: We hear also, that it was felt at Gram-pound, Truro, Tregony, Redruth, Helstone, Penzance, and almost in every Part of the Country, but the farther West the more violent, many Persons being unable to stand on their Feet thro' the Violence of the Motion; but most terrible was its Shock to the Miners under Ground, many of them being in Danger of being buried alive in the Mines where they wrought. A Person just now informs me, that the Noise he heard in the Bowels of the Earth near Penzance, was more loud than that of 1000 Coaches drove at once over the Plain. The Hand of the Lord seems to be lifted up against us, to strike the fatal Blow; but may a national Repentance, and an universal turning to God, avert the impending Stroke.