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Earthquake,
Arnside
COUNTRY NEWS
A very singular phaenomenon happened at Arnside, in
Westmoreland. Very early in the morning of the 6th of March,
a noise louder than thunder was heard issuing from the
earth, which so much alarmed the inhabitants, that they fled
in consternation from their houses to a considerable
distance. When the approach of day-light made objects
discernible, a subterraneous chasm of great depth appeared
to be the effect of this convulsion of nature. - Several
cattle and horses are missing, and are supposed to have been
swallowed up. - From all the circumstances that can be
collected, it appears to have been one of those local
earthquakes that sometimes happen in particular parts of the
country, without being felt at much distance from the scene.
Earthquake? or a landslide.
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