Mr Milne on Earthquake- Shocks felt in Great Britain, 108 



1766. 

 Feb. 18. About 8 a.m. u shock felt at Dover, Margate, and London. Felt 

 also at Navarre, Versailles, Paris, Cologne, Aix-la-Chapelle, 

 at same hour as in England. Direction from SE. to NW. 

 Many houses thrown down at Cologne, and a great chasm 

 formed in the Eyffel. Barometer very low, thermometer very 

 high in Switzerland, where the shock was strongest. A storm 

 succeeded in twelve hours after. (Bertrand, 308.) 

 Agitation of Loch near Closeburn, which continued for several 

 hours, and alarmed the neighbourhood. (Day not mentioned 

 —but stated to have been in week before 21st.) 

 June 1. Ashford in Kent. Shock accompanied with a noise like report 

 of a cannon at some places, and sound of a waggon at other 

 places. 

 Nov. 17. Inverhallan (Argyleshire), Kilfinnan, Glendrent, Rothesay. The 

 shock was preceded by a noise like thunder at a great dis- 

 tance, and lasted about 20". Bells rung. Three shocks were 

 felt two days after. 

 1767. 

 July 15. At 7 P.M. at Falmouth. Attended with great noise. Came from 

 SW. Felt and heard in the mines of Cornwall at a depth of 

 70 fathoms. Shock extended from Scilly Isles as far east as 

 Liskeard, and as far north as Camelford. '^ Several small ris- 

 ings as big as molehills were observed in the morning, before 

 the shocks happened, on the sands of the beach, having a 

 black speck in the middle of the top, as if something had 

 issued from it. From one of the hollows between these 

 risings there issued a strong gush of water, about as thick as 

 a man's wrist. For a week before the shock the weather had 

 been warm and sultry. In one of the mines, the earth was 

 felt to ' move with a prodigious, swift, and apparently horizon- 

 tal tremor.' " (Gent. Mag. v. xxix. 146, and Tr. R. S. L.) 

 1768. 

 Jan. 24. Liugfield in Surrey, and Edinbridge in Kent, at 2 a.m. (Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. London). 

 1769. 

 Feb. 24. Cornwall, at Liskeard. A bright aurora that night. 

 1761. 



Feb. 6. Shock at Sturminster between 11 and 12 p.m. 

 Mar. 31. Terceira. Sea rose to great height and fell again> leaving the 

 harbour dry. 

 Madeira. Shocks felt at 11^*35' a.m. 



At sea, off rock of Lisbon, in Lat. 44° 8' N., and Long. 6" 10'. 

 Cape Finisterre E.SE., and 80 leagues distant, two violent 

 shocks felton board of a ship at 11*' 46' a.m. 

 Santa Cruz, in South Barbary, at noon — the shock was very 



slight, and did no damage. 

 Lisbon, felt at noon precisely, last five minutes. Villa Franca 



