96 The East Anglian Earthquake.
side to side. No ripple or wave whatever was noticed to move
lengthwise of the bark. When the waves started across the
bark it splashed up about f to 1 inch against the S.E. side,
but when it returned it was stronger and deeper; that is to
say, that the bark was first slightly tilted towards the S.E.,
then much more strongly tilted towards the N.W.
This evidence is reliable and I collected it soon after the
event, It is important as affording an excellent indication of
the direction in which the earth-wave travelled.
3. Iron plates suspended from nails in a brick unplastered
wall running N.W. and S.E., oscillated to and fro in the
plane of the wall. Had the force producing this oscillation
been at all inclined to the direction of the wall the plates
could not have swung, as they hung with their faces in direct
contact with the bricks.
4. Pendent gas lights in the factory, 6 or 8 feet long,
swayed in a direction N.W. and S.E. Some gas-pipes were
stated to move in a plane at right angles to this, but the
most reliable evidence I could obtain at the moment did not
confirm it.40
5. A wall CO feet long and about 1G feet high, running
due N.W. and S.E., in which there was an old settlement
about midway, had a new crack formed by the shock from
top to bottom.
G. Two clocks stopped in different houses, the perpen-
dicular to the planes of oscillation of the pendulums in both
cases being approximately N.W. and S.E.
I send no personal experiences from this neighbourhood
gathered from others, as the accounts were exaggerated."
Boreham.—House-bells rung. Shock felt at Old Hall and
also at Boreham Hall, by Major J. L. Tufnell-Tyrell.
Braintree.—Shock distinctly felt ; house-bells rung ; a
rumbling sound heard ; no damage.
Braxted Park, near Witham.—Shock felt and rumbling
noise heard by Sir Charles Du Cane, who states that the
sound passed, as far as he could judge, from E. to W.
Oscillation of house seen and movement of earth felt; one
clock stopped ; marble columns with busts caused to rock
and one displaced nearly an inch; slight fall of plaster from
ceiling. Time, 9.20.
40 There was no inducement for the gas-pipes to swing in one direction
more than another, they all being fixed and not having any form of joint
or movable part.—E. B. K.