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An Account of an unufial Motion in the 
Waters of Clofeburn-Loch ix Dumfries- 
Shire, on Sunday 1h: 1/? of February 
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1756, in a Letter to GEORGE CLERK, 
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SIR, Ciiosevurn, February 4. 1955 
BouT aquarter before nine onSun- 
. day morning, we were alarmed 
“ with on unufual motion in the waters 
© of Gieiiateeloak: The firft thing: that 
appeared to mein this wonderful icene; 
was a ftrong convulfion and agitation 
of the waters from the weft fide towards 
the middle, where they toffed and wheel- 
ed.in a terrible manner. From thence 
proceeded two large currents, or more 
** properly rivers, which ran with a {wift- 
 nefs and rapidity beyond all defeription 
“ quite contrary ways; one from the mid= 
Vou. Ih. Ooo er: | 
* It may not be amifs to obferve, that, on thé 1ft of 
February 1756, according to advices from abroad, a 
confiderable earthquake happened at Oporto in Portus 
‘gal. 
