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The East Anglian Earthquake.
the house of Messrs. Hart and Fromant, consisting of an
oblong block, with its greatest length E. and W., and stand-
ing eight or ten feet above the building, was cracked obliquely
at the base, and the upper part cracked longitudinally from
the top, The upper part of the stack was displaced, and
projected over the lower part about two inches towards the
E. The eastern side of the basal crack was lower than the
western. Mr. Hart reports that in this house two or three
clocks, with pendulums swinging E. and W., were stopped,
and one clock swinging N. and S. was not stopped. The
premises stand upon ground having a considerable slope from
W. to E., a circumstance tending to complicate the effects of
the wave, as appears from the facts that while the clock
stoppages seem to indicate a N. and S. movement, the
chimney was displaced towards the E., and in the house
plates were thrown down from a dresser facing E., and other
articles were also thrown towards the same direction.
At Messrs. W. and E. Cheshire's establishment the shock
was severely felt, glass and china goods being thrown off
helves and much damage caused by breakage. The house of
Mrs. George Bawtree, in Queen Street, was greatly damaged
by the fall of chimney-stacks.
Castle and Museum.—In the museum many of the objects
were shifted, the direction and amount of twist depending
upon the shape of the object and its mode of attachment, so
that little information was derived from this source with
respect to the prevailing direction of the disturbance.
A Roman amphora under a glass shade, standing on a
table-case in the middle of the museum, and an Anglo-
Saxon nrn, also under a shade, were both twisted round with
their stands and shades towards the W., so that the labels
which faced S. before the earthquake faced S.W. afterwards.
The shells in the collection in the entrance-hall were, as
might have been expected from their shapes, much rolled
about. One specimen card, with shells attached, was shifted
side of some thick brickwork, the other slanting. One brick is broken
through in the oblique crack. With this exception the crack is in the
mortar. This house has the appearance of being substantial,"