Author: Robert Morrison

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• Adam Christopher (2)
  • IN: Hanging Wire (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We have been very much alarmed by a repetition of earthquakes since the morning of the 16th of Dec... Various conjectures have arisen in the minds of our readers philosophers as to the causes that may have produced them. some suppose they are occasioned by a volcanic eruption, others seem to think they were produced by the comet's near approach to the earth. There are, however, a few who are of a differing opinion and ascribe it to electricity alone. The latter opinion I have adopted.
    FROM: Western Spy, (1812), NULL, UK
  • IN: Hang WIre (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: “We have been very much alarmed by a repetition of earthquakes since the morning of the 16th of Dec…. Various conjectures have arisen in the minds of our readers philosophers as to the causes that may have produced them. Some suppose they are occasioned by a volcanic eruption, others seem to think they were produced by the comet's near approach to the earth. There are, however, a few who are of a differing opinion and ascribe it to electricity alone. The latter opinion I have adopted.”
    FROM: Letter from Robert Morrison, (1812), Letter, UK