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same Shock heard in its different stages of approach & departure by those who were awake. From the hour at which this Shock took place, we cannot be much surprisd that it should have been but partially felt, but there are some circumstances attending this part of the account, which seem rather extraordinary, & as I state them from my own actual enquiry, you may rely fully on their authenticity & truth. In some parts of the Town, whole Families dressd themselves & alarmd their neighbors, whilst others situated very near them, were not sensible of it. Upon the whole, from the accounts I have been able to collect, I think it may be pronouncd, that in those houses situated near the River & the Canal, it was more severely felt than in others more distant from them. In the House of Industry which is close to the River Side, the large Bell was sounded so loud as to alarm the Inhabitants, whilst the Sailors in the different Ships moord just under it were not sensible of it, the Sentries of the Garrison, who were doing duty at the Castle which is situated on a lofty Rock of Sand Stone not far above the River were not sensible of it, whilst the Inbabitants of a Suburb of this City termd Boughton, which I must observe is situated on the Banks of the River Dee at a place where the River takes a sudden turn, almost at right angles, from South & North, to East & West, were almost universally awakend from their Sleep, & exceedingly alarmd. The Revd Mr Massey & the other Inhabitants of the Houses in St. Johns Church yard just above the River were very sensible of it, & the general sensation produced seems to have been that of persons breaking into their Houses, till the rumbling noise convincd them of its reality. I must observe that a Canal runs from a considerable distance & passes through the City of Chester in a