and especially in Scofland. W 



shock was aeoompanied, or rather succcccled, by a rnslilng or 

 rambling kind of noise, resembling the sound of a carriage, 

 passing along the road, which continued for a second or two, 

 and appeared to me to proceed as from north to south or south- 

 east, — at this period, I must say I felt a peculicir sensation 

 just as if I had been suddenly exposed to danger ; and when 

 this had a little subsided, I Avent to the kitchen to inquire 

 whether the servants had been up stairs making any noise, 

 and found them all alarmed, having heard the noise and felt 

 the shock without knowing the cause ; I therefore concluded 

 it must have been an earthquake.'' 



" Another correspondent says, — " The first circumstance 

 that attracted my attention was a sudden and violent gust of 

 wind, accompanied with a more than ordinary rushing noise, 

 as from the north-east, against the window. I then felt 

 the shock, and the doors of the wardrobe, before which I 

 was standing, which are rather loose, rattled sharply four or 

 five times, and the noise seemed to pass to the other side or 

 front of the house, and roll heavily, as if under ground, away 

 to the south-w^est. The shock excited a most peculiar sickish 

 sensation, such as I think I never felt before.'' 



Mr Donald, writer in Alloa, communicated several circum- 

 stances of intei'est. 



(1.) The landlord of the Tontine Inn there was, when the 

 shock occurred, standing at the door of his stables, which 

 front the west, and was leaning with his back on the south 

 lintel. He very distinctly heard the noise, which he thought 

 came from the north. He then felt a jerk similar to that felt 

 by a person leaning on a steam- boat when it strikes a quay. 

 He was precipitated forward about a foot. The bells in his 

 house were set a-ringing, and the glasses on his tables and 

 sideboard were put in motion. 



(2.) A steam-boat was lashed alongside of a quay, running 

 nearly east and west. The boat was on the north side of the southi 

 wall of the quay, and the paddle-box was within two feet of the- 

 wall. There was about a foot and a half of water between her 

 keel and the bottom of the river. An engineer and a boy were- 

 sitting in the steerage cabin, the former reading. Suddenly 

 the boat gave " a heavy jerk" on the pier. These two per- 



