98 Mr D. Milne on Earfhquake-Shocks felt in Great Bntaia, 



At Alva, as the Rev. Mr Drysdale reports, " I was moved 

 upon my chair from one side to the other. I was within half 

 a foot of a wall-press, the standards and door of which cracked 

 as if hreaking. My house is situated within 300 yards of the 

 Ochil range. It faces due south. I was sitting in a room at 

 the west gable. When I heard the noise, I turned my face 

 towards the east, in which direction it seemed to me coming. 

 When it came, as it were, around me, I felt very strange, and 

 as if there was something like a shock of electricity over my 

 body, beginning at the feet and going to the head. Sitting 

 still in this position, after the noise seemed to have passed to 

 the west, 1 saw the carpet move as it had been a wa\c >'f the 

 sea, and as it undulated along to my chair : — then was my 

 chair moved to the west, then to the east." 



The Rev. Mr Brown, parochial minister of Alva, who felt 

 the shock in his manse at the foot of the Ochils, says, — " What 

 I first perceived was a loud and very singular noise, which 

 lasted 2" or 3". Immediately aftei', I felt the house shake 

 violently." I may add, " That before perceiving the shock, 

 or thinking that an earthquake was approaching, I felt, during 

 the continuance of the noise, as if I had been slightly electri- 

 fied, A quivering sensation pervaded my whole body from 

 the feet upwards.'' 



From Alloa, situated on the Forth, about S. by E, from Com- 

 rie, various communications were received, of which a few 

 may be noticed. 



One correspondent writes, — " I felt a remarkable sensation 

 come over me at the time of the shock. But whether it was 

 connected with the phenomenon, or merely a sensation pro- 

 duced by the mind, being instantly aware of what the pheno- 

 menon was, which was taking place, I could not determine. 

 The leg of a piano in the room distinctly creaked." 



Mr Roy writes, — " I was sitting in the dining-room on the 

 ground floor, reading, one of my arms resting on the table, 

 and the other on one of the arms of the chair on which I was 

 sitting, when I suddenly felt a violent shock (as if a very heavy 

 weight had been thrown on an elastic floor), which made the 

 table move as if from under my arm in a southerly direction. 

 I immediately called out, ' What was that V to some of the 

 familv who were in the room and also felt the shock. The 



