and especially in Scotland. 81 



^little to the south. There was a sound with the shock, 

 which went south also. 



At Cnejl the effects of the shock are thus described in a 

 paragraph which appeared in the newspapers published a few 

 days afterwards : 



" On the afternoon of Friday last, about half-past two 

 o'clock, Crieff was visited with two fearful shocks of earth- 

 quake in close succession. Each was accompanied by a pro- 

 longed hollow sound, the motion^ of the earth being from west 

 to east. Every house in town shook severely, and furniture 

 was displaced. The inhabitants flocked to the streets in 

 great numbers, being greatly afraid. It was said that this 

 shock was nearly as powerful as the one felt here on the 23d 

 of October 1839. It was likewise felt severely at St Fillans. 

 The same day a shock was felt at Glenlyon and adjacent 

 places, about three o'clock p.m. It seemed there to proceed 

 with great rapidity from east or north-east to west. The loud 

 noise resembled exactly that of a heavy coach driving furiously 

 upon hard ground, so much so that in many places people ran 

 out to obtain a sight of it. Some declared they felt consi- 

 derable tremor of the earth, but this was not generally the 

 case. It is said that a slight shock was also felt on the same 

 day about noon.'' 



A correspondent in the neighbourhood of Dunkeld writes : 

 — " The shock was very sensibly felt here, as well as at 

 Logierait and neighbourhood. A hollow, growling sound, 

 somewhat like distant thunder, was heard some minutes after 

 two p. M., as if proceeding from nearly north-west to south- 

 east. The houses shook, the windows rattled, and the chairs, 

 &c. in some instances, danced in their places. I myself felt 

 as if the chair I sat on, and the floor, had suddenly sunk some 

 inches ; and there was an undulatory motion for about four or 

 six seconds, which I cannot describe. The sound continued 

 some seconds longer. The barometer was about 28^1- at the 

 time." 



At Aberfeldj/, the earthquake was felt about half-past two 

 o'clock P.M. It appeared to proceed from the south-west to 

 the north-west, and continued a few seconds. 



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