and especially in Scotland. . 365 
the room was falling, and the walls on each side of the room 
closing together upon me. The floor seemed to rise up under 
my feet. The report was exactly like the nearest and loudest 
peal of thunder, only instead of being over head, it seemed to 
rise up tmmediately under the house. The ladies, Mrs C. and 
her sister, were in one room ; the latter was woke from sleep. 
They were both so shocked and alarmed, that they could not 
explain their feelings. In all our house, the floors were 
covered with little bits of plaster from the ceilings, which fell 
just like a light shower of snow. A wall of the stable, which 
runs E. and W., was cracked from top to bottom, and several 
of the lath and plaster partitions had rents made in them. In 
the drawing-room, an iron plate at the back of the grate fell 
into the grate towards the west. A great deal of soot and mor- 
tar came down several chimneys. About 15 to 20 roods of dry 
stone dykes, previously in a sound condition, were partly 
thrown down, partly loosened by the shock, on the hill as well 
as on level ground. These were quite entire at dusk the same 
evening. In a farm-house here, two large stone-tiles were 
loosened and came down two separate chimneys with great 
force. The east gable of a farm-house, which runs N. and 
S., had a rent made init. In one cottage a mile from this, 
the interior partition wall dividing two houses fell down. 
** A second shock was felt about half an hour after the first ; 
report not near so loud, but shaking of the houses consider- 
able, and a rushing sound as if dying away to the south-east- 
ward. The rain had fallen incessantly for two whole days 
and two nights, the atmosphere being on Monday morning, 
2st, so close and heavy, that I told several people we should 
certainly have a shock of earthquake. ‘The rain began that 
night, atmosphere continuing close and oppressive, so that 
even the working people felt it so, till the evening of the 
24th, when the rain abated. 
‘“« The physical effects were most singular, but somewhat si- 
milar on most inmates of the house. The shocks which suc- 
ceeded the first, produced a feeling of sickness, like that felt 
before fainting. It was almost impossible to rally one’s spirits, 
in order to prevent others from being alarmed. Even the 
workmen and farmers were completely awe-struck, and could 
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