To the Editor of the Sus,—It may interest any of your readers who are students of seismotic science, to know that the shock of an earthquake described by your correspondent at Nagasaki as having occurred there on the evening of the 23rd ultimo, was distinctly felt here.
My wife was lying ona sofa, and I ting in an easy chair reading, when we both felt" quick undulating Movement, exclaimed almost at the same moment That was an earthquake." Wo had neither of us experienced the shock of an earthquake before, but the sensation was very unpleasant, and the knowledge of its cause apparently intuitive. The earth wave appeared to be double, and to pass from West to East or from East to West. The time by the clock upon the mantelpiece was exactly 7 minutes to 7.
We noticed that the brass poles of the bedsteads rocked considerably, and that the hangings shook as if moved by a atrong breeze, Your obedient servant, Shanghai, 3rd June, 1873.
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