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she had certainly experienced an earthquake. At the same 

 moment, my daughter descended from the upper storey, say- 

 ing that there was some person in her room, who, after shak- 

 ing her bed, made several heavy steps across the floor, and 

 had at last fallen down in it. I felt it right at the time to 

 calm these alarms, without acknowledging that there had 

 been any earthquake. In the morning, I learnt from the 

 young lady in the lower flat, that while in bed, which stands 

 lengthwise south-east and north-west, she had felt herself, by 

 the rising of the west side of the bed, suddenly tossed towards 

 the east, and as suddenly again thrown down towards the west. 

 She described the noises she heard at the same time, in a 

 way similar to that in which I have done above. Mrs F. was 

 actively engaged at the moment of the shock, which she felt, 

 and she also heard the noise, but imagined it was a violent 

 gust of wind, of which there had been several in the previous 

 part of the evening. 



" The house stands upon a bed of shingle, anciently deposited 

 by the small river Leochal. The rocks, only slightly covered, 

 over all this neighbourhood, are micaceous schist and granite." 



(5.) Accounts from Districts East of Comrie. 



Near Kinross, at Shanwell, '^the residence of the Rev. Mr 

 Coventry, the shock is thus described by him : — " At the time 

 of the shock I was sitting. A noise preceded it as of a rushing 

 wind, though the air was perfectly still at the time, and this was 

 accompanied by a noise as if of cattle or horses running rapidly 

 past the windows. The duration of the shock was of such a 

 length, as to give Mrs C. and those who felt it, time to speak 

 of it as an earthquake, and to express their feelings in regard 

 to it. She thinks it lasted a minute. The rushing noise 

 seemed to be in the air, as Avell as the sound like the tramp- 

 ling of horses or cattle. But besides these, and following 

 thorn, there was heard a rumbling noise as if of carts on a 

 pavement, but more hollow in the sound ; and this latter 

 sound was in the earth, and began distinctly on the north-west 

 end of the house, and proceeded gradually to the south-east 

 side, when it gradually died away. The rushing sound in the 

 air was heard both on the north and south sides of the house 



