ndon_, Printed for _John Martyn_, and _James Allestry_, Printers to the
Royal Society. 1666.

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_Num._ 11.

PHILOSOPHICAL
_TRANSACTIONS._

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_Munday_, _April._ 2. 1666.

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The Contents.

_A Confirmation of the former Account, touching the late _Earth-quake_
near _Oxford_, and the Concomitants thereof, by Mr. _Boyle_. Some
Observations and Directions about the _Barometer_, communicated by the
same Hand. General Heads for a _Natural History_ of a Country, small or
great, proposed by the same. An Extract of a Letter, written from
_Holland_, about _Preserving Ships from being Worm-eaten_. An Account
of Mr. _Boyle's_ lately publish't Tract, entituled, _The Origine of
Forms and Qualities_, illustrated by Considerations and Experiments._

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_A Confirmation of the former Account touching the late _Earth-quake_ near
_Oxford_, and the Concomitants thereof._

This Confirmation came from the Noble Mr. _Boyle_ in a Letter, to the
_Publisher_, as followeth:

[Sidenote: * _See_ Num. 10. Phil. Transactions p. 166-171; _at the time of
the printing whereof, this Relation of Mr._ Boyle _was not yet come to
hand._]

As to the _Earth-quake_, your curiosity about it makes me sorry, that,
though I think, I was the first, that gave notice of it to several of the
_Virtuosi_ at _Oxford_; yet the Account, that I can send you about it, is
not so much of the _Thing_ it self, {180} as of the _Changes of the Air_,
that accompanied it. To inform you of which, I must relate to you, that
riding one Evening somewhat late betwixt _Oxford_ & a Lodging, I have at a
place, 4 miles distant from it, the weather having been for a pretty while
Frosty, I found the Wind so very cold, that it reduced me to put on some
defensives against it, which I never since, nor, if I forget not, all the
foregoing part of the Winter was obliged to make use off. My unwillingness
to stay long in so troublesome a Cold, which continued very piercing, till
I had got half way home-ward, did put me upon galloping at no very lasy
rate; and yet, before I could get to my Lodgings, I found the Wind turned,
and felt the Rain falling; which, considering the shortness of the time,
and that this Accident was preceded by a setled Frost, was surprising to
me, and induced me t