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notion, that the roofs were falling in. Even the domeftic animals 
were alarmed, and contributed, by their howls and {creams, to 
increafe the terrors of the people. Though I have not been 
able to difcover whether Loch Earn was ever agitated by thefe 
concuffions, there is little doubt, that the iver near Comrie was 
affected on this occafion, as two men then on its banks heard 
the dafhing of its waters. Uhis great fhock was fucceeded by 
a number of thofe flighter rumbling noifes which have been al- 
ready mentioned. Not lefs than thirty of them were counted 
in thé {pace of two hours after it happened ; but they did not 
extend above two miles to the eaft, north and weft of Comrie. 
On the toth of November, at three o’clock P. M. we had 
here another fhock of much the fame length, violence and ex- 
tent, as that on the 5th. The mercury in the barometer on this 
day was more ftationary than on the former, and at the time of 
the earthquake was 29 inches high. The weather was calm and 
hazy. It was a market-day at Comrie; and the people, who 
were aflembled from all parts of the country, felt as if the 
mountains were to tumble inftantly upon their heads. The 
hard-ware expofed for fale in the {hops and booths fhook and 
clattered, and the horfes crowded together with figns of unufual 
terror. } 
AxouT one o’clock P. M. of the 29th December, we had 
another pretty fmart fhock, during a very violent ftorm of wind 
‘and rain, which continued the whole day, and which was at its 
height during the time of the earthquake. Indeed, as has been 
remarked already, thefe concuffions feem to have no dependence 
on the weather. According to the accounts of thofe who live 
neareft to the centre of the phenomena, rumbling noifes, like 
thofe above defcribed, may be heard in all ftates of the atmo- 
fphere: ; 
- Txoven I mention no more of thefe earthquakes, you are 
not to conclude, that many more have not taken place, and fome 
_of them perhaps equally violent with thofe of the sthiand 10th 
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