PHYSICAL anv LITERARY. 464 
ART. XXXVI. 
Adcounts of extraordinary Mont of the Was 
zers in feveral places of North Britain, and 
of a Shock of an Earthquake felt at Dun- 
barton. 
ey great defign of the inftitution of 
this Society being faithfully to re- 
cord every remarkable phanomenon in 
- mature that occurs, it has been thought 
proper to infert the following accounts of 
the effects of the late earthquakes, as they 
have been obferved in our diftrict of North 
Britain ; nor do we regrete, that they are 
“not more fingular or interefting in their 
kind. When all the facts and circum= 
{tances fhall be collected by the united la- 
bours of the learned in different places, 
there is reafon to expect, they may furnifh 
materials for a more compleat and accu- 
rate hiftory, than hath been tranfmitted 
of 
