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was felt there to a sufficient extent to cause four persons,
writing on the second floor, to leave their desks and make for
the street. Motion also felt on first floor; direction of oscilla-
tion apparently E. and W.
Holies Street. —Vibration of room felt by a gentleman
reading in bed.
Bedford Square.—Dr. Jabez Hogg writes to say that at
No. 1 his daughter, who was just leaving her room, at about
9.20, felt the room violently shaken, and the glass pendants
of the candlesticks on the mantelpiece jingled loudly. The
disturbance was also felt in the room above, and was at first
attributed to the fall of a heavy piece of furniture.
Russell Square.—Shock felt at No. 46 (Mrs. Horne), and
by Mr. Gunn in the adjoining house; bedsteads felt to
oscillate, gas fittings jingled, and chandelier in drawing-room
seen to swing ; motion said to have been E. and W. for about
30 seconds. Vibration also felt and clocks stopped in one or
two other houses.
Montague Street. — The following information has been
kindly collected for me by Mr. C. P. Hayward, P.S.A.:—
At No. 20 Dr. Alfred Elwes, who has had previous expe-
rience of many earthquakes in Italy, was seated at breakfast
on the first floor reading, and noticed the sound of what
appeared to be a sudden gust of wind, and the instant
afterwards felt his chair gently rocked ; a large picture
hanging on a S. wall moved forwards (towards the S.);
time about 9.25 (?), motion very gentle. Mr. Hayward
himself, who was at breakfast below, felt nothing. At
No. 22 the disturbance was plainly felt at about 9.20, by a
lady and her daughter at breakfast; pictures on the walls
were moved in a direction E. and W.
Guilford Street.—The night-bell at a doctor's house is
reported to have been rung at about 9.20: attributed to
the earthquake.
Hunter Street.—Mr. A. Cowper Banyard, F.R.A.S., re-
siding at No. 13, informs me that some counterpoise weights
on his reflecting telescope were displaced in his observatory,
and as the door is always kept locked during his absence, he