Genre:

Reminiscences, Spoof; Reportage, Extract, Spoof

Subjects:

Geology

    The narrator describes an evening spent in Marylebone with a friend and his mercantile agent from Lisbon, who recounted his experiences of the great earthquake there. At the end of the evening, on taking his leave, the narrator experienced similar violent motions of the earth under his feet. A spoof extract from the police reports of the Morning Herald reveals that he was drunk.