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about four feet high, and were built of polished 
freestone. They were a few inches apart from 
each other, and had their angles exactly oppo- 3 
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the house is situated. The chimney-stalks were > 
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site, in the way represented by the adjoining 
woodcut A B. The effect of the shock is stated to 
have been to turn each chimney inwards, in the direction of 
the arrow, so that their faces came nearly opposite to each 
other. 
“« Posterior to the shock of the 23d (Mr Walker says), I 
heard from two respectable witnesses, that two cats were 
noticed by them to be wonderfully agitated. Of these, the one 
was seen passing from the ground to a considerable height, 
and then screaming and retiring to another part of the room. 
The other, between the first and second shocks, was seen to 
run from room to room, till at length burying itself amongst 
a quantity of bed-clothes, it lay as if completely paralyzed 
with terror. A respectable correspondent in Crieff adds on 
this subject, ‘ birds in terror fell to the bottom of their cages, 
while at Lawers the horses in the stables became quite fu- 
rious.’ ” 
In'regard to the state of the weather at the time of the 
principal shock on the 23d, Mr Walker says, that, ‘* When it 
was felt, the rain was falling very heavy, and without inter- 
mission. Indeed, for about forty-eight hours previous to this, 
it may be said to have rained incessantly. During the 238d it 
was very dark, and more so towards the afternoon. Return- 
ing then from Crieff, I distinctly observed a dense dark cloud 
of mist floating over the eastern side of the village, and set- 
tling down upon the rising grounds by which it is bounded on 
the south. The Grampian range were at this time not per- 
ceptible, nor did they become so during the evening. In con- 
sequence of the heavy rains, the river Erne, with its tributa- 
ries, became very much swollen. ‘The Erne during the even- 
ing might have risen about four feet above its usual banks. 
This rise, which may appear great to a stranger, was less 
than was expected from the known character of the river, 
taken in connection with the great quantity of rain that had 
fallen. It has, during this season, risen not only as high but 
