380 Mr D. Milne on Earthquake-Shocks felt in Great Ihitain^ 



in an upper room, moving some heavy articles along the floor. 

 Slates, in some instances, were heard to clatter on the roof ; 

 but generally those persons who had just retired to rest, felt 

 it most, and they describe their sensations as if the bed-cur- 

 tains were violently shaken, and the bed-clothes a little raised 

 up. In one instance, a lady thought she heard one of her 

 children fall out of bed, and on going up stairs, found her son 

 fairly on the floor quite bewildered, and he stated that some 

 one shook him out of bed, 



" The greatest amount of injury caused, was the enlarging 

 of some rents or cracks in the top walls and chimney-stalks 

 of houses in Inverness. No stones or chunney-cans were 

 thrown down, as in the great earthquake in 1816, when chim- 

 ney-tops were pitched half across the street, and the top 

 stones of the jail spire were twisted round off their beds. 



" The concussion at Inverness, consisted, on this occasion, 

 of a mere tremor, accompanied with noise. 



" The direction of the pulsation or tremor was along the 

 course of the Great Glen of Scotland, from S.W. to N.E., or 

 nearly so ; and this the writer believes to have been the 

 course observed by all the recent earthquakes in this quarter. 

 He is also inclined to think, that it followed the course of the 

 lines of granite rock which are disposed very nearly from 

 S W. to N.E., in their greatest lengths. In the slight shock 

 which occurred in (he thinks) November or December 1838, 

 the direction of the earthquake where most strongly felt, 

 was from Fort Augustus to Kingussie, a course directly op- 

 posed to the general bearing of the hills and valleys ; but 

 still, one proceeding through Corriarack^ and a large granite 

 district. On the north side of Lochness, the shock in Octo- 

 ber last was severely felt, especially in Glenurquhart, and at 

 the house of Tolmally, which stands at the extremity of a 

 small deposit of Serpentine rock. There, two men servants 

 who were sleeping together, were awakened, and felt the 

 shock so strong, that they clasped each other, and believed 

 the house to be falling on them. 



*' In Inverness, the windows of houses looking to the south 

 or west, rattled violently, while those on the east and north 

 sides scarcely did so at all ; and parties in rooms on the west 



