366 Mr D. Milne.on Earthquake Shocks felt in Great Britain, 
say little till it was over. A maid-servant in the house 
fainted and became hysterical, and even persons of stronger 
nerves felt very nearly as much depressed.” 
Monivaird Manse, about 4 miles E. by 8. of Comrie.—* Part 
of a chimney-top of a house at the south-west end of Monivaird 
Loch was thrown down. The chimney-top runs nearly be- 
tween south-west and north-east, and the stones fell towards 
the south-east. ‘Two chimney tops of a lodge on the road- 
side, about a mile to the eastward of Monivaird Church, were 
partially shifted from their position. This house stands nearly 
east and west—the chimney-tops, of course, run nearly south 
and north—the stones (all hewn and firmly put together) 
were shifted towards the east or south-east, and as regularly, 
I am informed, as if a mason had laid them in their positions ; 
one chimney-top corresponded so exactly with the other. A 
house at Greenend, on the Turret, and at the north-east side 
of Monivaird parish, suffered very much. The house runs 
from north-west to south-east. An inner wall or partition 
was thrown very much off the perpendicular, nearly twelve 
inches at the top, and it inclined towards the south-east; pieces 
of wood, &c. were thrown down from this partition wall, and 
fell inclining in like manner to the south-east. The east gable 
was also thrown considerably off the perpendicular, and inclines 
to the south-east. This is an old and clay-built house. At 
the Manse of Monivaird the shock was not preceded by any 
sound, it appeared to strike, with the force of some immense 
object, the house on the west side; it shook the body of the 
house from the top to the foundation for two or three seconds, 
then seemed to retire eastward, or rather to the south-east, 
and a loud roar, like that of the blast-furnaces in a large iron- 
work, was heard for about ten or twelve seconds, gradually 
departing eastward, and dying in the distance. I was not 
sensible of any heaving or undulating motion; but different 
individuals have mentioned to me that they felt the ground 
heaving below them, the earth or floor first rising on the east 
side and sinking a little on the west, and then immediately 
rising on the west side and sinking on the east. Persons have 
also told me that they observed the walls or partitions of their 
houses shaken, and first inclining westward and then inclining 
