384 Mr D. Milne on Ear thqiiake- Shocks felt in G reat Bi iiam^ 



ware are clattering in the cupboard \ No other person in or 

 about Fraserburgh appears to have felt it." 



At Banchory, situated to the west of Aberdeen, and about 

 80 miles from Comrie, Mr Innes of Raemoir writes, — *' At the 

 time of the earthquake, my daughter was an invalid, and the 

 family had gone to rest. We sleep on the first floor, — our 

 daughter in an adjoining bedroom towards the east. The 

 wind was strong and boisterous. From a quarter to half-past 

 10 I had fallen into a slumber, when I was roused by what 

 appeared a loud gust of wind, and I felt as if in the bedroom 

 overhead a person had sprung with naked feet on the floor, 

 and run or stamped across. While collecting my thoughts as 

 to what could have caused such an occurrence, and recollect- 

 ing that there was no person in the rooms above, my daughter 

 rung her bell and opened her door. Her account is, that lying 

 quite awake, the wind for the moment had lulled, she heard 

 as if suddenly a heavy carriage had driven round the house, 

 coming from the west and going off by the east, and her bed 

 shook, and the wardrobe and all the articles in the room rattled. 

 She immediately started into a sitting posture, and, while think- 

 ing if any carriage could have arrived, and listening atten- 

 tively to any sounds, she was attracted by what seemed a peal 

 of thunder, immediately followed by a noise overhead as if of 

 a person jumping and stamping as I have described ; a dull 

 noise as produced by a heavy naked foot, and siniuUaneously 

 the bed seemed to heave, and the wardrobe and other articles 

 rattled as before. She thinks that one or two minutes must 

 have intervened between the two shocks, from the impression 

 left of the thoughts which passed through her mind by the 

 first before the second took place. Being alarmed, she started 

 up and rung her bell. Of the servants, who sleep in the lo^ver 

 part of the house, only one maid appeared to be attracted by 

 it. On the bell being rung, she called to her fellow-servant 

 to get up, as she had heard a carriage drive up. We came to 

 the immediate conclusion that it was an earthquake, and it 

 very much resembled the sensation which accompanied that 

 which occurred, I think, in August 1816, and which I felt in this 

 neighbourhood. All the ground round here is on granite. The 



