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east, and the gas lamp suspended in the middle of the room 

 indicated by its oscillation a movement in that direction. The 

 Colonel instantly pulled out his watch, and found the time 

 exactly twenty minutes past ten ; and whilst he was looking 

 at his watch, he distinctly felt a second shock, not so strong 

 as the first, but the vibration was in the same direction. 



" Mrs General Farquharson was in bed at the time of the 

 shock, and she felt as if a person was under the bed, and lifted 

 it up ; the ewer in the basin gingled with the motion, and 

 when she rung for her servant, she came in great alarm, 

 thinking, from the rattling of the windows, that some person 

 was attempting to break into the house. 



" A young man, a student in a lodging-house, was awakened 

 by the lifting of his bed ; — and thinking it was a trick by 

 one of his companions, got out of bed, and seizing a golf- 

 club, continued to strike at the supposed intruder under the 

 bed. 



(6.) Accounts from districts South-East of Coinrle. 



In East-Lothian, near North-Berwick, as Mr Scougall at Bal- 

 gone wrote, " the noise or sound preceded the shock. The shock 

 was not tremulous, but undulating. Those who were in bed 

 describe it thus : They felt, as if their beds had been swung 

 from the top. The shock lasted about two or three seconds. 

 " Dr Moir of Musselburgh writes, — " I was sitting in 

 the dining-room of Loretto with Mr Langhorne ; but al- 

 though there is a gas-chandelier suspended from the centre 

 of the roof, which readily vibrates in treading across the 

 room, neither of us were attracted by this or any other cir- 

 cumstance. Next morning, however, in making my rounds, 

 I called on Mr Watson of Pinkieburn, who asked me if I 

 had perceived any thing uncommon on the night before. 

 I said. No. He then informed me, that, from ten minutes 

 to a quarter after ten, while seated in his parlour by the 

 table, he distinctly felt his chair move under him ; at the 

 lapse of about two seconds another movement was distinctly 

 perceptible, at which time he said to Mrs Watson, who was 

 walking along the floor, ' What is that? Did you observe my 

 chair moving under me V ' No,' she replied, ' but there is 



