90 Ml- D. Milne on Earthquake-Shocks felt in Great Britain, 



donly to the S.SE. ; — indeed I can compare it to' nothing 

 but the motion of a ship, when she gives a slight lee- 

 lurch." 



The gardener of the Dollar Academy has given the follow- 

 ing graphic account of what he perceived. " My family had 

 retired to bed ; 1 alone sat reading, opposite the fire-place, 

 which is in the east side of the room. The candle was burn- 

 ing on the chimney-piece, with the snuffer-tray beside it. I 

 was startled by an unusual noise towards the NW., like the 

 rolling of many carriages, or the sound of distant thunder. It 

 appeared to die away toward the SE., and struck me as being 

 immediately under or on the surface of the earth, — not over 

 head. I still looked in the direction from whence the sound 

 came, and perceived the bed-curtains agitated. The bed stood 

 in the NW. corner of the room. There -was a looking-glass 

 in the window, which looks to the west. — It also was shaken. 

 The chair which I sat on, Avas moved first toward the SE. se- 

 veral times, the candlestick in the same direction. The snuffer- 

 tray was nearl}^ thrown down. Tlie motion of the earth was 

 decidedly undulatory ; and from the circumstance of the bed- 

 curtains and looking-glass being moved first, and my chair 

 being next moved toward the S E., and the candlestick in the 

 same direction, I concluded that the shock was from the N\V^. 

 to the SE. I was sitting in a position peculiarly favourable 

 for observing it. My feet rested on one side of the grate, and 

 my whole weight was on the chair. My attention was 

 keenly alive at the time. The noise preceding the shock last- 

 ed, I think, about 4" ; a shorter time] intervened between the 

 noise and the shock, which lasted also about 4". The strength 

 of the shock throughout appeared to be the same." 



At TiUicoiilfrij, a considerable village a little farther to the 

 cast than Dollar, also situated on the south base of the Ochil 

 range, Mr Thomson, surgeon there, writes, that " Those in 

 Tillicoultry who most distinctly experienced the shock, agree 

 generally in stating, that there was a decided undulatory mo- 

 tion communicated to their houses, whereby they themselves, 

 and objects on the floor, were, or seemed to be, lifted up and 

 let down again, as if they were rocked in a cradle, or tossed in 

 a hammock at sea. 



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