and especially in Scotland. 79 



far north as Glenlyon, thirty miles, and south as Alloa and 

 Stirling, from twenty to thirty miles." 



*' I have since seen several of the shattered buildings : one 

 of the chimney-tops in Dunira House is slightly rent; one in 

 the stables behind, very much ; two of the gardener's cottage 

 behind that again, considerably ; one so much, that it was 

 taken down, and rebuilding when I saw it. The directions 

 in which the stones have been moved, seem to have been va- 

 rious." " It is remarkable that neither the row of chimney - 

 stalks on^ the hot-house wall, of the same construction with those 

 of the gardener's cottage (octagonal), nor those of the game- 

 keeper's house, which is a little up the hill, have been injured. 

 The gardener told me the foundation of all the buildings 

 thereabout (except the last) was upon a gravelly soil, but how 

 near the subjacent rock he could not guess. A person who 

 happened to be on the hill or rising ground immediately to 

 the west of Dunira House, told me, as a proof of the shock 

 having come even there from the west, that after the shock 

 passed him he heard the rattle of the slates, and of the build- 

 ing about Dunira. But this you'll at once see was not evi- 

 dence of the alleged fact. Another, standing on the hill above, 

 said, that he thought he saw the disturbance or wave of the 

 woods pass eastward. This was near Comrie. Those in the 

 wooden shade, at the saw-mill near Dunira, saw the roof open 

 for a moment ; and when they rushed from the shade, they 

 observed that the water in the mill-lead was for a short time 

 dammed backwards, and raised about four inches above its 

 former level at that place ; and from this and other indications 

 they judged that the earth there was raised directly upwards 

 about six inches. There were traces of electricity in the clouds 

 at the time, and other peculiarities in the appearance of the 

 sky, but nothing amounting to the least hint, so far as I could 

 judge, that we were to be so roughly handled. I recollect be- 

 fore, of noting the appearance of the sky as lurid and par- 

 ticularly sombre when we had quakings below ; but I have fre- 

 quently since, seen the same or even stronger marks of the same 

 kind, and yet all pass peaceably off; and, on the other hand, 

 earthquakes, when the sky was clear and open. Even a course 

 of previous wet weather, which, from its being hitherto an al- 



