370 Mr D. Milne on Earthquake-Shocks felt in Great Britain, 



" At Pontlevoy (Cher), after a warm and calm day, a wind 

 suddenly and violently got up towards 8 p. m., on the 4th 

 July 1841. The sky was charged with electrical clouds. 

 Vast lightnings illuminated the horizon. At last, at 12^ 30', 

 a deep and hollow sound was heard, and it was followed by a 

 marked oscillation that lasted 3'' in the direction from W. to E. 

 At 3^ 40' A. M,, a second movement was repeated. Then 

 slighter oscillations were renewed at a later hour. The 

 weather was calm at 4 A. m." 



The same paper, under date Montargis, the 5th instant, 

 states, that *' a noise was heard in that town similar to that 

 produced by the explosion of cannon, but as there was no ar- 

 tillery there, every one was inquiring what could have pro- 

 duced it. It was afterwards ascertained that a stone had 

 fallen from the clouds at Chateau Renard, half a league from 

 Montargis. This stone was round and of a dark colour, 

 and weighed 95 lb." 



The following paragraph appeared about the same time in 

 Galignani's Messenger : — " The shocks of the earthquake felt 

 at Paris on Sunday night, were perceived with greater force 

 in the centre of France. The same storm that fell over the 

 capital visited a considerable part of France. A rumbling 

 noise is said to have been heard in most spots, attending the 

 oscillations of the ground. At Orleans, on the same evening 

 about eight o'clock, a violent whirlwind passed over the town, 

 and the evening was dark and stormy until midnight, when 

 the horizon began to clear up, with occasional lightning. At 

 this time there was not the slightest wind. At a quarter be- 

 fore one on Monday morning, three shocks of an earthquake 

 roused the inhabitants from their sleep, and occasioned great 

 alarm. They succeeded each other at intervals of from 30 

 to 35 seconds. The first, which was the most violent, had 

 the effect of a violent motion from east to west ; the two 

 others were from north to south. The third, in particular, 

 lasted a pretty long time, and many persons who were lying 

 in their beds, placed in the direction of east and west, felt 

 them move five or six times. Those, on the contrary, whose 

 beds were placed in the direction of north to south, felt their 



