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SE. of Comrie), the shock between 2 and 3 a.m. ‘‘ was very 
violent, causing the bed to shake greatly, and the articles in 
the basin-stand to rattle strongly.” 
At Kenmore, about 3 a.m. one of the maid-servants in the 
manse “ declares that her bed shook like a cradle, and that 
the basin-stand made a rattling noise on the floor. She was 
so frightened, happening to be alone, that she was on the point 
of Eadepdtg to take refuge in the apartment of her mis- 
tress.” 
October 23. 1841. 
Leichdin, a farm-house situated half a mile N.W. of 
Comrie village. “ The great jolt felt between 10 and 11 
p.m. came from the north, and apparently from some point a 
little to the west of Lord Melville’s monument. It created 
the sensation that the house and whole ground adjoining had 
been suddenly pushed and moved to the south, and then in- 
stantly brought back to its former position. There seemed to 
be two such jolts, with an interval of a second between them. 
There was a subterranean noise, which preceded the shock. 
Before midnight a similar subterranean sound was heard 
twelve times, accompanied on one occasion only with a shak- 
ing.” 
Comrie House-—About a quarter of a mile N. of Comrie 
village, Sir John Mansel (who then resided there) writes,— 
“ The most violent shock occurred at about 10 5’ p.m. From 
the first report to the ceasing of the sound, there might have 
been 45’ or 50’. As it was dark, I am unable to say whether 
an undulation of the earth’s surface was produced ; but some 
seconds after the shock, and while the vibration was still con- 
tinuing in the earth, it appeared to heave up. The sensation 
conveyed to me by the concussion, as I was standing on the 
ground-floor, was as if the earth was being rent asunder under 
my feet; and this for some seconds I fully expected to hap- 
pen, from the violent movement, apparently in the bowels of 
the earth. This shock, like all the others, seemed to origi- 
nate a short distance north of this house, The rumbling noise 
follows a direction from NW, by N. to SE. by S.A loud noise 
accompanies every shock, proportionate in loudness to its 
