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stone). It was also strongly felt at Elgin (town stands on 

 cornstone (limestone of old red), and near it, I am told, two 

 China bowels containing flowers, which stood near each other, 

 were broken. The following extract from a letter from Dr 

 Geddes of Blackhills. 4^ miles east of Elgin, will give you 

 some particulars. 



At Amulree, about 12 miles N.N.E. of Comric, the concus- 

 sion caused a small part of an old road to sink, rendering it 

 impassable. In the neighbourhood of the same place, several 

 fissures were formed, running generally N.N.E. and S.S.W. 

 One of these is described by the Rev. Mr Lamont. as being 

 about 200 yards long, and another about 50 yards long. These 

 two fissures were about 50 yards apart, and united towards the 

 south in a curve. In some places, one of them was several 

 feet in width. The ground contained within the limits of 

 these two fissures, appeared to have moved towards the north : 

 — for a dyke built across this elliptic tract, in an east and west 

 direction, was, where intersected by the fissure, carried a few 

 miles towards the north, and a portion of the dyke was thrown 

 over in the same direction. 



(4.) Accounts from Districts North-East of Comric. 



At Fraserburgh, on the sea- coast of Aberdeenshire (about 

 140 miles from Comrie), Mr Jameson writes that his wife was 

 sitting up expecting him to return home, when " she thought 

 she heard the sound of a carriage approaching in the direction 

 «he expected it, viz. S. W., and consequently went to the door, 

 but neither saw nor heard anything except a trifling sound like 

 that of a gust of wind dying away ; felt no concussion. A 

 gentleman, at Knousie, six miles south from this place, was 

 in bed, and felt a sensation as if something was pulling the 

 bed-clothes off" him, and the same thing repeated after an in- 

 terval of three or four seconds, when he was seized with a 

 kind of fear, thinking it was something extraordinary. 



" At Stricken., 8 miles S W. from this, two young ladies had 

 retired to their rooms for the night, when, soon after, one 

 ran into the apartment of the other in a fright, saying, what 

 can be the matter, for things are moving and the crockery- 



