374 Mr D. Milne on Larthquake Shocks felt in Great Britain, 
discharged at the bottom of a coal-pit 300 or 400 yards away., 
The concussion was felt much more severe in the upper flats 
of houses. When the first shock came, I was four flats up, 
and it was so severe, and alarmed me so, that I started out of 
bed and went down stairs to the ground-floor, and on this 
floor I felt the second shock, and then perceived the differ- 
ence. The shaking and lifting of the furniture was not half 
so much, although the noise was almost as loud as that which 
accompanied the shock which I felt up stairs. Water was 
thrown out of the ewers in fop flats, when there was no ap- 
pearance of this below. On the morning after the shock, | 
learned from a gentleman who was passing a mill-dam at the 
time, that he distinctly observed (being moonlight) first a 
tremor in the water like water near the boiling-point; then 
the whole dam agitated, like the flowing of the tide on a smooth 
sea-beach. The atmosphere was particularly dense and very 
warm—dquite disagreeably so. Previous to the shock, a thick 
rain fell during 33 hours, and continued 18 hours after with- 
out intermission. The most remarkable effect observed was, 
that the first shock jammed a room-door so close that it could 
not be forced open, until the second shock (35 minutes after), 
relieved it quite as it used to be, and no crack was seen in 
that house. In Crieff, the inhabitants were so alarmed that 
hundreds ran out of their houses, uttering hideous screams, 
many of them in their night-clothes, and would not venture 
in again for long after, and several of them walked about the 
street all night. I myself would have fallen into syncope, had 
I not, by a singular effort, thrown myself out of bed. Imme- 
diately after the shock, I got out of bed, and, on looking from 
my window, beneath which were a number of trees, I observed 
that the branches of the trees were all bent towards the east, 
as if a strong but steady gale had been blowing upon them. 
I looked until they recovered their erect position, after which 
not a leaf moved. During the time, I heard a hollow sugh in 
the air, resembling the draught of a furnace ; this continued 
about 20 seconds after the concussion.” 
(4.) Mr James Young of Crieff says, that at the time of the 
great shock he experienced “a kind of headache, similar to 
