82 Mr D. Milne on Earthquake-Shocks felt in Great Britain^ 



Farther information having been applied for from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Aberfeldy, the following particulars are given 

 from the letter of a correspondent in a parish immediately 

 adjoining. He says, that the most prevalent impression was, 

 that the concussion came from the south or south-west — that 

 some persons " felt a sort of undulating motion as if they 

 were sailing ia a boat, and others felt the earth heaving from 

 below." 



At Aithrey Castle j near Stirling, the shock produced " a 

 rumbling noise as of chairs or tables drawn along the floor of 

 the room immediately above. "^ 



At Glenfinnart in Argyleshire, the shock w^as felt in the 

 manner described in a letter from Mr James Dennistoun, ad- 

 vocate, who was on a visit there. " I had just left the lunch- 

 table, the party remaining round it ; all distinctly heard the 

 rumbling noise, and felt the shaking, which, for a moment, 

 they supposed occasioned by a carriage, or by some unaccount- 

 able movement of furniture by the servants. When it was 

 ascertained that neither of these could be the real cause, the 

 party unanimously ex claimed — "An earthquake 1" Mrs D., who 

 was confined to bed by a sick headache, had been startled out 

 of a slumber by the noise, and felt five distinct rockings of 

 the hed^ crossways ; and though she had never felt an earth- 

 quake, at once concluded it was one. Her bed was up one 

 low storey, and the motion seemed to undulate east and west. 

 Had I been aware of it, I should have noted the barometer 

 and thermometer ; but am not aware of anything remarkable, 

 except that we had for three successive days a strong north- 

 west wind most unseasonably cold, with a good deal of rain. 

 On the 28th, the wind was most violent and squally ; on the 

 29th, windy with cold and heavy showers ; on the 30th, strong 

 gusts, with occasional rain. Glenfinnart is on the west side 

 of Loch Long, in a narrow valley which nms westward." 



^th September 1841. — On the shocks of this date, Mr Mac- 

 farlane of Comrie reported as follows : — " On the night be- 

 tween the 9th and 10th September, we had several smart 

 shocks. The next morning, the association's instruments in- 

 dicated as follows : — 



** The steeple one was inclined to the south three-quarters of 



