102 Mr Milne on Earthquake- Shocks felt in Great Britain, 



1765. flowed. About half an hour before^ springs had become 



turbid, and stopped nearly a minute. 

 Hot springs at Bristol were coloured red, and rendered unfit 



for use for some months. 

 Warm saline springs at Montier ceased to flow for 48 hours. 



Waters afterwards flowed more copiously. 

 In Switzerland, the lakes of Leman and Brientz, &c. were about 



10 A.M. observed three times to be agitated, causing the water 

 suddenly to flow towards and retire from their shores succes- 

 sively. At Basic, the barometer was 26.25 inches ; it had 

 rarely before been so low. 



At Augsburg, it was said that at the moment of the shock a 

 number of magnets hanging, with weights suspended by their 

 attractive power, dropped their weights. In several parts of 

 Germany a derangement of the magnetic needle was said to 

 have been observed. — (Bertrand, Hist. Naturelle, 276 — 281.) 



Mountains in Haut Yalais (mica-slate) opened, and threw out 

 hot water. 



Felt at Tangiers and Morocco, where earth opened and swal- 

 lowed 8000 persons. 



At Cadiz a wave about sixty feet high dashed on shore about 



11 A.M., — and that was followed by three others. 



This shock felt about 1 p.m. at Barbadoes and St Eustatia. The 

 sea rose twice in some islands, thrice in others from 8 to 12 

 feet perpendicular, and suddenly retired as much below its 

 usual height. 

 Waves rose at Cork. At Kinsale there was a wave5i feet high, 

 some say 6 or 7 feet high, which rolled into the harbour about 

 3 P.M. and other waves continued till 10 at night, though all 

 ' the time quite calm. 



At Swansea, a wave came 1^ mile up river, at 6^^ 45' p.m. after 



2 hours' ebb, with a great noise. Fell back suddenly. 

 A vessel far west in the Atlantic experienced a vertical shock. 



—(Phillips' Geology, v. ii. 208.) 

 In Cornwall, at St Ives, and at Hayle, at 4 p.m. there were three 

 I several waves which rushed on the land, and floated a vessel 

 that was nearly dry. 

 In the West Indies sea rose from 8 to 12 feet, violently agitated. 

 Dec. 31. About 1 a.m., "being awake in bed (at Kilmalcolm, 10 miles W. 

 of Glasgow), I felt about 7 or 8 shocks. The whole were 

 over in half a minute. The second shock was the greatest, 

 and fairly lifted me out of bed, jolted me to the head of it, 

 and then threw me back to where I lay before. The same 

 shock jostled a large chest so violently against the side of a 

 wall in another room, that it awoke a gentleman sleeping 

 there." — (Gent. Mag.) 

 Felt also at Glasgow, Greenock, Dumbarton^ and luchrinnan. 



