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a noise like the rumbling of a waggon heard. Mr. C. A.
Markham reports many instances of the earthquake having
been felt in the town, chiefly by people in bed or quietly
seated. Pictures were shaken, lustres rattled, and the
usual effects experienced. An old Roman wall two feet
thick, standing in a garden, was shaken, and the planks
which propped it up fell into the next garden. The sway-
ing movement of the houses appears to have been distinctly
felt. Time given as 9.20 or 9.30.
Peterborough.—Shock felt in Lincoln Road, London Road,
and Bridge Street; also at Fletton Spring.
Pitsford.—Shock felt at Pitsford Lodge about 9.20.
Sywell.— Shock felt at Rectory about 9.30 ; bed and hang-
ings shaken.
Thrapstone.—Oscillation felt by invalids in bed.
Watford Court.—Shock felt by Lady Henley about 9.20.
Weedon.— Shock distinctly felt in Ordnance Buildings.
Wellingborough.—Mr. C. A. Markham reports " The shock
was felt in many parts of the town, notably in the ware-
houses of Messrs. Watkin and Messrs. Brown. At the Club
the ceiling cracked and fell, and clocks stopped."
West Haddon.—Oscillations felt by an invalid in bed ;
two series separated by an interval of two or three seconds ;
curtains seen to move ; time given as about 9.15.
Rutland.
Uppingham.—Writing from West Deyne, Mr. G. H.
Mullins reports that the shock was felt all round, but not at
that place.
Huntingdon.
No report has been received from this county, and the
shock, if felt at all, must have been very slight.
Leicestershire.
Ashby Parva.— The following letter from this place has
already appeared in Mr. Symons's report:—
" I was in bed (being an invalid), but writing at the
time. My chronometer is temporarily out of gear. At