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



Names of Places. 



Reading (Berk 1 

 shire), j 



Yarmouth, ... 



Ej'am Edge 

 (Derbyshire) 



Durham, , 



The Hague, 

 Amsterdam, 

 Leydeu, 



Loch Ness, 



Hamburgh, ... 



Time of 

 Shock A.M. 



h. / 



10 27 



Shortly 1 

 before I 

 10 40 J 



About \ 

 10 30] 



About 

 9 58 



About 1 

 10 Gj 



10 42 



About \ 

 11 43 I 



Phxxomeka. 



f Most violent trembling of the ground 

 for 50" — immediately after which, 



I Avater in a pond seen to fioAV from 



I S. to N., and to oscillate for 4'. 

 A vine trained up on a house torn 



I from it. People in a house heard 



t. a noise as if it were falling. 



r Water in haven suddenly agitated, 



I which gave ships an uncommon mo- 



{ tion. 



^ Five shocks, at intervals of 4' or 5'. 

 A person raised in his chair and 

 much alarmed. Plaster of room 

 cracked. Miners heard the rocks 

 grind on one another, and saw pieces 

 fall from sides of shafts. Rent 150 

 yards long formed in ground on 

 north side of lead vein, which runs 

 E. and W. 

 Water in a pond seen to oscillate 



several times. 

 Water violently agitated in harbours, 

 so that ships broke from their fast- 

 enings. In vats of breweries, liquid 

 thrown out. Candelabras in churches 

 vibrated. Candles hanging in a 

 chandler's shop made a clashing 

 noise. Weatliercocks on tops of 

 steeples seen to move. 

 At west end of lake a wave run up the 

 river Oich, which overflowed north 

 bank for 30 feet. A similar wave, 

 but smaller, observed at 9'^ 42'. 



( Candelabras in churches seen to swing. 

 -c Water in canals agitated, and mud 



I thrown up from bottom. [ 



The foregoing table is mostly constructed from materials, 

 which are to be found in the Philosophical Transactions for 

 the year 1756. In the reports there given, some discrepancy 

 and vagueness occur in the time at which the shock was per- 

 ceived at different places. The places mentioned in the fore- 

 going table, are those from which the reports seem to be the 

 most exact ; and though even amongst them there is not a 

 perfect agreement, it will be observed, that, generally speak- 

 ing, the time at which the shock took to travel to the places 

 mentioned in the table, varied with the distance from the pro- 

 bable point of greatest intensity. The times given in tho 



