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had the bed opportunities of obfervation, thought they felt 

 two fmall fhoeks, anxl in their fituations, things that were 

 hanging on the walls were evidently moved from their places, 

 occafioning fome noife. Many people were awakened from 

 their fleep'by the motion which they felt in their beds, which 

 they generally defcribe by the rocking of a cradle, or as if a 

 perfon had lifted up one fide of the bed from the floor, to 

 which a tremulous motion fnccecded for a fhort fpace. At 

 Grangemouth, and over all that neighbourhood, two pretty 

 fevere fhoeks were felt, one at four, the other at fix in the 

 morning. 



At Crieff it refenibled the fudden.fall of a houfe, attended 

 with a rumbling noife, which continued about the fpace of 

 fix feconds. It appeared to go from Weft to Eaft. One per- 

 fon ftates that the roof over his head cracked, and appeared 

 as if it would burft. The rattling of the diflies on the fhelves, 

 and the loofe partitions, helped to increafe the fears of the 

 people, who ran to the doors. 



A letter from Stirlingfhire defcribes it in the fame manner. 

 The writer fays, " at ten minutes before fix, I was furprifed 

 with a fudden making of my bed, which continued for about 

 half a minute. The hiotiori feemed to come from beneath > 

 but I can fay nothing elfe concerning its direction. A fer- 

 vant who deeps in a room adjoining to my barn, was alarmed 

 by the creaking which it occafionecTin the joifts. There was 

 hot a breath of wind, and the Iky, though fomfwhat cloudy> 

 was altogether calm. Soon after the morning became very 

 bright and warni ; nor was there any mid on Benlomond, 

 Benledy, or any of the neighbouring mountains." 



On the morning when it was felt, the gable of a barn, a 

 Few miles to the weftward of Edinburgh, where fome {hearers 

 were fleeping, fell in, whether from the inftability of the 

 building, or the concuffion of the earthquake, is uncertain; 

 but the unfortunate tenants were completely buried in the 

 rubbifh. When the accident was-difcovered, and thefe poor 

 people dug out, two women were found dead, and another 

 very much bruifed, who was immediately brought to the 

 Royal Infirmary. The others, eight or ten in number, were 

 not much hurt. 



It was obferved at Leith, that the tides, for three days, had 

 not ebbed fo much as ufual at the then age of the moon ; fo 

 much fo, that the workmen at the .New Dock had not been 

 able to accomplifh the work they ordinarily do while the tide 

 is out. 



In the year 1755, when the earthquake deftroyed a great 

 part of Liibon, there were fmart (hocks felt in different places 



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