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244. ACCOUNT of EARTHQUAKES 
of November. Several thocks have happened during the ftill- 
nefs of the night, which, even at this diftance from Comrie, 
where their centre feems to be, have been abundantly terrifying. 
But the great refemblance, or rather the perfect fimilarity of 
their effects, and of the impreffion they make on our minds, 
renders it unneceflary for me to trouble you with a particular 
defcription of each of them. : 
Tue direétion of all the noifes or concuffions I have obferved, 
great as well as fmall, appeared to be in the fame line from 
N. W. to S.E. Others defcribe them as fometimes proceeding 
in that dire@ion, and fometimes as coming from N.E. to S. W. 
I have not heard any other line of direétion afcribed to them. 
Upon the fulleft enquiry, | find, that thefe earthquakes have 
been very limited in point of extent. The greater fhocks have 
been feebly felt at Loch Earn head, about Killin, and at Ar- 
donich, on the fouthern bank of Loch Tay. They do not ap- 
pear to have extended farther eaftward on that lake ; and, what 
is more remarkable, they have not been felt in Glen-Almond, or 
the fmall glen through which the military road from Crieff to 
Tay-bridge pafles. The farmer at Auchnafree, (which lies at the 
head of Glen-Almond, and is feparated from{Glen-Leadnach only 
by the mountain Benechoni, over the northern fide of which his 
fhepherds daily travel), has affured me, that neither he,nor any of — 
his people, have been at any time fenfible of the leaft extraordinary 
noife or concuffion. Towards the eaft, the two firft great fhocks 
extended to Monzie, Cultoquhey and Dollary, about feven miles 
diftant from Comrie. The fhock of the 5th of November reached ~ 
{till farther, and was felt, though but faintly,at Ardoch and Drum- 
mond Caftle towards the S.E. In the direction of the fouth, how- 
ever, the banks of the Earn feem to be its general boundary, 
as the noife of the moft violent concuffions was heard but faintly 
at the manfe of Comrie, and along the /rath on the fouth 
fide of the river. The limits of the leffler concuffions, I - 
am confident, do not extend above three miles in any di- 
rection 
