106 Mr D. Miluc on Eardnjuakc-SItock.s felt in Gixaf Jkifain. 



conds, and was succeeded by a second noise vvliicli was louder. 

 She then asked her family, ' Do you think that's thunder ;' 

 and with latter sentence in her mouth began to sit down, when, 

 being seated, she felt the earth (in her own words) rowing or 

 coming till me. She sat with her back to the north. One of 

 her sons had his hand placed on jambs of fire-place, when 

 lie thought they would fall to him. Her husband was in 

 bed half asleep ; being alarmed, got up on his elbows in bed, 

 when, by an undulation, he was thrown down on his back 

 again. From these narrations, it appears to me that the 

 first ' lean over' was to the east. House of these people faces 

 S., and bed lies N. and S., fire-place facing E." 



Mrs M'Ewen " was dozing in bed. Heard no noise. She 

 lies E. and W. Her head seemed £o lie lower than rest of 

 body, during movement. Old man (oit. 80) lies N. and S. 

 His left shoulder received a shock while in a slumbering state, 

 Avhich made him cry to people of house ; says it came off E." 



" Frederick Campbell says noise was very loud. Jt came 

 off the south-west or south. After noise, felt motion in bed. 

 Head lies to the i-.outh. Felt a pitch to the east first, and then 

 to the west, and there was no more of it. Wood of house 

 cracked. House seemed to be drawn together, and then went 

 back again. House also seemed to sink, just as a ship at sea." 



It only remains to be mentioned, that this shock of 23d Oc- 

 tober 1839 was felt as far south as the English borders. It was 

 felt at Netherby Hall by Miss Burdon in a room at the top of 

 one of the turrets ; but it was not perceived in any other part 

 of the house.* It was felt at Ctoseburn Caslle, Dumfriesshire, 

 at 10ii2'p.M. 



It was felt at Selkirk, and in the neighbourhood also at 

 Kelso, where the windows rattled, and crockery ware was 

 shaken. It was felt at Coldstream, in the neighbouring village 

 of Newtown and the farm of Mountfair. 



* Letter from J. A. Campbell, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh. 



