Excerpt from Ferrers, Vol. 1 of 3: A Romance of the Reign of George the Second<br><br>As the catastrophe had apparently passed, the Londoners shook off their apprehension, and nothing more was thought of Sir Isaac's prophecy, nor of the strange temperature, so different from that produced by the biting and withering north-east winds which, in England, generally blow from January to June. Even the freaks of the tumbling glasses, the self moving chairs, the spontaneously-ringing bells, and the saltatory platters, ceased (after some slight comparison of notes between dwellers at different parts of the town) to furnish topics of conversation. Accordingly, the earthquake and its attendant phenomena seemed in a fair way to be utterly forgotten.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.