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XI. An Account of repeated Shocks of Eartuquaxss felt at 
ComriE in PERTHSHIRE, im a Letter to the Reverend 
Mr Fincarson, F.R.S. Evin. from Mr RALPH TAYLOR. 
Communicated by Mr FINLAYsON. 
[Read April 5. 1790, and Feb. 4. 1793] 
Dear Sir, Ochtertyre, Fan. 19. 1790. 
HE earthquakes which have lately taken place at Comrie * 
and its neighbourhood, are certainly very deferving of 
attention. I fhall therefore cheerfully comply with your re- 
queft, and give you as particular a defcription as I can of fuch 
of them as have been moft remarkable. To give a particular 
account of all the zoifes or concuffions which, during the laft 
half-year, have been heard or felt at Comrie, and within a fhort 
diftance to the north, eaft and weft of that village, is beyond 
my power, and would indeed be of little ufe. With regard to 
thefe fmall concuflions, it will be fufficient to fay, that many 
of them have fometimes been obferved to fucceed one another 
in the fpace of a few hours; that they take place in all kinds 
of weather ; that they are thought by fome people to proceed 
from 
* Comrie is a village about twenty-two miles weft of Perth, fituated in the valley of 
Strath-Earn, and on the north fide of the river-Earn, about four miles below the place 
where it iflues from the lake. ‘The remains of a Roman camp on the oppofite fide of the 
river, have made the name of this village very well known to Scottifh antiquaries. 
