376 Mr D. Milne on Earthquake Shocks felt in Great Britain, 
other lesser shocks before and since. This description cor- 
responds also with what was experienced by others in Crieff. 
Astone partition built N.NW. to S.SE., 9 feet high and 16 long, 
and dividing this counting-room from the spirit warehouse, was 
rent in two places from ¢op to bottom, each open about 4 of an 
inch, and pieces of the plaster fell from each side of the open- 
ings to the floor, but the partition did not lean towards any side. 
Plaster fell from many parts of the buildings (which are coarse 
but are firmly built with lime) to the floor, and particularly 
upon the NW. side of the different apartments. The chimney- 
top of an old dwelling-house about 400 yards northwards of 
this was thrown down, and a dyke, also hard by, built of round 
water stones, tumbled down in four or five places, each place 
varying from 5 to 20 yards in length. In Crieff too, a few 
chimney-tops and canns and loose stones were thrown down, 
and one gable of a house of four storeys was rent from top to 
bottom nearly three inches wide. My mother, who has been 
in this neighbourhood above 50 years, and has felt many of 
those shocks, says that she has felt them always proceeding 
from about the same airt; but that the shock I have just de- 
seribed was by far the greatest and the noise the loudest of 
any she has felt.” 
The Honourable Mr Drummond thus describes the shock 
as felt at Strathallan Castle, situated about twelve miles S.SE. 
from Comrie:—‘‘ On the 23d the shock here came decidedly 
from the west, perhaps a point or two to the north. The vi- 
bration is described as from blows from the westward, and the 
undulation as first vising from the west, then down again and 
rather lower than natural, and wp again to its proper level. 
In this house a clock fronting the south, a point or two to the 
westward, had its glass-door opened to the west and left so. 
At Crosshill, two women were sitting at the fire, facing the 
NE., and were both thrown out of their chairs on the fender. 
The door of a room in which several men were sitting, open- 
ing to the eastward, was opened but not closed again. A 
noise preceded the shock by one or two seconds, and continued 
till near the end of the shock. There have been more north- 
ern lights seen this year during September and October, than: 
for some years past. The following phenomena, although not 
connected with the earthquakes, as they happened consider- 
