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** of the water, it gradually abated. There 

 " was no wind at the time the waters were 

 " agitated as above." 



5. An Account of an uniifiial Motion in ih0 

 Waters of Clofeburn-Lor^ in Dumfries- 

 Shire, on Sunday the i/? o/' February 1756, 

 in a Letter to George Clerk, j^/j'i ^» 



SIR, CLOSEBUftN, Fehruary 4. 1756. 



" A ^^^'^ ^ quarter before nine on Sunday 

 " morning, we were alarmed with aa 



*' unufual motion in the Waters of Clofeburn- 

 " Loch. The firft thing that appealed to 

 •' me in this wonderful fcene, was a ftrong 

 " convullion and agitation of the waters from 

 *' the weft fide towards the middle, where 

 *' they tofled and wheeled in a terrible man- 

 " ner. From thence proceeded two large 

 " currents, or more properly rivers, which 

 *' ran with a fwiftnefs and rapidity beyond 

 " all defcription quite contrary ways j one 

 *' from the middle to the fouth-eaft, and 

 Vol. n. I i i " the 



* It may not be amifs to obferve, that, on the iftof 

 February \ J ^6, according to advices from abroad, a confi- 

 dcrable earthquake happened at Oporto in Portugal. 



