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the horizon. A new and well-built cottage to the S. of the
village (standing nearly N. and S.) had suffered severely at
its southern end, about 20 feet of brickwork having been
thrown from the gable. Mr. G. J. Symons reports that
"the occupier saw stacks fall, first to E. or E.N.E, of him,
and afterwards others in S.W." Two long eight-day clocks
in this house were stopped, the plane of oscillation being
respectively W. 18° S.—E. 18° N., and S. 5° E. —N. 5° W.
Three old cottages near had lost nearly all their tiles, and
the ". chimney-stacks were thrown over, the debris falling in
the direction S.S.E., to N.N.W. (owner, working in garden,
had to steady himself on his spade)." At the school-house
the chimney-stack broke through the roof.
Abberton Hall and Abberton House,
two substantial buildings, a little to
the N.W. of the village, were much
shaken, especially the latter, occupied
by Mr. Edward W. Bawtree, in which
the chimney-stacks were all more or
less twisted. Mr. Bawtree has fur-
nished the accompanying sketch of
one of these chimneys, which is here
introduced with the object of illus-
trating the extremely complicated
effects produced by the seismic move-
ment.
In this house an eight-day clock,
with seconds pendulum, was stopped;
pendulum swinging S. 17° W.—N.
17° E.
The Rectory, a new building in course of construction,
between the village and the church, had two out of three
chimney-stacks dislocated and twisted, and every room more
or less damaged. Mr. F. Chancellor, of Chelmsford, under
whose superintendence this house was erected, states that it
is built on a heavy clay soil and is most substantial, special
pains having been taken with the foundations. The two
rectangular chimney-stacks (on a sloping roof), were cracked