Mr Milne on Earthquake- Shocks felt in Great Britain, 117 



181G. were thrown from the tops of houses across the street. The 



spire of the county jail was rent through, and the part above 

 the rent was twisted round several inches ; — as the direction 

 of the undulation was towards the SE., the upper part was 

 left behind. The mason-lodge was rent from top to bottom, 

 and the north stalk of the chimney partly thrown down. 



A slighter shock was felt about half an hour afterwards. 



At Montrose, a vivid flash of lightning was observed to follow 

 after the shock. At Dunkeld, a small meteor was seen to 

 pass from E. to W. just about the time of the earthquake. 

 There the houses were much shaken. 



Immediately after the shock commenced, I felt a kind of faint- 

 ishness, which did not leave me for two hours. The same 

 felt by others. I know persons who have the same feeling 

 . during a thunder-storm. This faintish feeling was in some 

 persons attended by a very slight degree of sickness. 



All alluvial positions were more convulsed, than more stable for- 

 mations in their close vicinity. 



Such a rainy season as the past, has hardly been remembered 

 by any one. 



At the Kessock-Ferry, the ferrymen felt their boat heaved sud- 

 denly and rapidly, as if projected over two or three large 

 waves. The night and sea were calm. 



Notes from Newspapers. 



At Inverness the shock lasted 20". The motion came from the 

 N. and W., whereby the stones in the upper part of the spire 

 were thrown to NW. Stones on chimney-tops were also 

 thrown to NW. 



At Montrose, the bells rung, and bed-curtains moved as if by 

 wind. The weather on the preceding day was cold and 

 stormy from the north ; but on the evening of the earthquake, 

 it was uncommonly mild and calm. It has been succeeded 

 by a tempest of wind and rain from NE. 



The shock felt at Perth and Dunkeld. The noise seemed to die 

 away to the west. At Perth there were two shocks separated 

 by half a minute, and there seemed to be a forward and then 

 a backward motion of the earth. 



Excessive and long-continued rains had fallen in north of Scot- 

 land, for some months previous to earthquake. 



The eflTects of this earthquake were perceived along the east 

 coasts, but not farther south than the Tay, and not farther 

 west than Loch Lochy. This earthquake said to have been 

 felt, though very slightly, in Edinburgh and Leith. — (G. Mag. 

 V. Ixxxvi. Part 2d, p. 269; and Annals of Philos., 1816-7.) 

 Aug. 19 and 20. Shocks on both days in Inverness and neighbourhood. 

 Sept. 24. Mr Gilfillan of Comrie states that there was an uncommon 

 phenomenon in the air,— a large luminous body, bent like a 

 orcsceutj which istretched itfi«lf over the heavens* 



