Py: pone ACCOUNT ¢ EARTHQUAKES 
country was filled, and to afcribe them to the workings of an 
imagination, on which the alarm of the 2d of September ftill 
continued to be impreffed. 
On the 5th of November, a concuflion took ‘place two or 
three minutes before fix o’clock P. M. which was too violent to 
be miftaken. Some compared the noife which accompanied it 
to that of heavy loaded waggons, dragged with great velocity 
along a hard road or pavement, and thought, that it paffed under 
their feet. To me it feemed as if an enormous weight had 
fallen from the roof of the houfe, and rolled with impetuofity 
along the floor of the rooms above ; and it muft have made a 
fimilar impreffion on the fervants, for fome of them inftantly 
ran up ftairs to difcover what had happened. Others were fen- 
fible of a tremulous motion in the earth, perceived the flames 
of the candles to vibrate, and obferved the mirrors and kitchen- 
utenfils placed along the walls to fhake and clatter. There is 
alfo reafon to believe, that the waters in the Loch of Monivaird, 
in the near neighbourhood of Ochtertyre, fuffered unufual agi- 
tation, as the wild fowl then upon the loch were heard to feream 
and flutter. The noife on this occafion, as far as I can judge, did 
not laft above ten or twelve feconds. During the courfe of the 
day, the mercury in the barometer rofe and fell feveral times, 
and at fix o’clock it ftood at 284 inches. The fky was then per- 
fey ferene, and hardly a breath of wind was to be felt; but 
next morning, about fix o’clock, a violent tempeft rofe, which 
raged without intermiffion for twenty-four hours. 
At Glen-Leadnach, Comrie and Lawers, this concuffion was 
much more violent, and the noife that accompanied it much 
more alarming. The inhabitants of thefe places, and of 
Aberuchill and Dunira, declare, that they perceived diftin@ly 
the earth heaving under them, and the motion communicated 
to their chairs, and other furniture. They imagined that 
the flates and ftones were tumbling from their houfes, and 
many of them ran out inthe greateft trepidation, from the 
notion, 
