370 Mr D. Milne on Earthquake Shocks felt in Great Britain 
part of a house was first struck, to myself and others the west 
end or side was first heaved up, or the only part heaved up, I 
was, during one of the shocks, sitting in a chair with its back 
to the west. When the shock took place, I felt as if one had 
taken the chair by the back, and tried by a jerk to empty me 
out of it. I seized by its arms to hold’on. The same hap- 
pened to others. On another occasion, I observed a chest of 
drawers, which stands against a partition-wall running north 
and south, to move eastward from the partition, and then regain 
its position with a crash. Some stacks of corn near Crieff 
were turned round from the west several feet, so that that part 
of the stack which faced the west now faces the north, and the 
props of the stack are twisted round its outside. This would 
be explained by the props not being applied so as to bear upon 
the centre of the stack, so that when the shock came, it struck 
the props’ ends on the ground ; they communicated this shock 
to the stacks, and caused them to turn as on a pivot. This 
turning of the stacks happened on the night of the 23d. On 
the same night, several of my friends, who were standing at 
the time, on feeling the west side of the house moving up- 
wards, staggered first eastwards, catching at the furniture, 
and then westwards, as the house subsided. This was on the 
low ground near Crieff, where the shock was very severe. 
Many gadle-waills have been rent, but I have heard of no side- 
walls being so in this quarter. Of the gables of those houses 
which stand by themselves E. and W., as far as I have heard 
or seen, it is always the eastern gable which is by far the most 
damaged. This applies only to all east of Comrie. In some 
houses, the eastern gable is entirely separated from the side- 
walls of the house. No trees or tall objects were thrown off 
the perpendicular in this quarter. During a shock, I observed 
a table-cloth wave eastward. Some doors were also thrown 
open; they opened westward, as they could open in no other 
way. A noise preceded, accompanied, and followed the con- 
cussions. It preceded the first concussion of each shock by 
about 3 seconds, and continued about as long after the second 
concussion. During the great earthquake, the noise conti- 
nued about 15 seconds. The noise began at a distance in the 
west. It was like an immense number of carriages coming at 
