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pare to the first slight disagreeable feelings which usuilly pre- 

 cede a fit of sea-sickness. The ultimate concussion was very 

 violent, occasioning a notion or feeling that the walls of the 

 house had been suddenly shaken loose, and were likely to fall, 

 and the windows shook and rattled as if the glass were shiver- 

 ing in pieces. The motion of the earth, so far as 1 could ob- 

 serve, was decidedly undulatory, such as might be conceived 

 to be produced, by two or three waves succeeding each other 

 with great rapidity. This motion may readily be conceived 

 to bear some resemblance to the rocking of a cradle." 



(2.) Accounts from Districts North-West of Comrie. 



At Clenary^ 4 miles from Inverary, Colonel Fleming re- 

 ports that he felt the shock about 10 p.m. " The motion and 

 noise seemed to proceed from SE. to NW., or rather E. and 

 W." 



At Bunolly, near Oban, Captain Macdougal states, that 

 about a quarter before 10 p. m. the shock was very slightly 

 felt, but without tremor or vibration. There was a noise 

 ** which lasted about 3 or 4 seconds.*' 



At Ardgour^ in Inverness-shire, there was both a noise and 

 a motion perceived by Colonel Maclean and his family. It 

 was distinctly perceived to come from the south. 



At Appin, still farther north, the noise, when first observed, 

 was mistaken for the sound of carriages. Mr Downie writes : 

 ** I had only time to say. What is that ? before we were shaken. 

 Every article in the room rattled greatly.'' 



(3.) Accounts from Districts to the North of Comrie. 



At Dull Manse, in Aberfeldy parish, the Rev. Mr Dewar 

 " felt both a noise and a shake about 10 p.m. The noise was 

 first perceived. It was loudest when the shake w^as felt. The 

 shake continued 3" or 4". The noise and shake seemed to 

 come from the SW. I felt my chair lifted up, as if it were 

 going over a wave of the sea. Exactly half an hour after- 

 wards, I heard the noise of another shock, but not so loud as 

 the first. 



At Kingussie, on tUe banks of the Spey, about fifty-five 



