458 Earthquakes.—Ezxtraordinary Shipwreck. 
granny in the village, she remarked she did not doubt it; indeed 
she thought she “ felt something fall on her umbrella as she went 
over the field in the evening before.” On the arrival of this 
story in Bristol, only eight miles, it amounted to this: A dread- 
ful storm had happened which drove every person from a fair 
held there ; and that when the morning came they found twenty- 
eight acres of land covered six or seven inches deep with snails, 
which had fallen with such foree as to beat holes in people’s 
umbrellas!!! Some of them were brought here, and sold on 
the Exchange at a halfpenny each, and I am given to under- 
stand that a respectable tradesman in Bristol had some of them 
boiled, and ate them as shell-fish. 
If you think it necessary that such a statement should be cor- 
rected, and that this answers the purpose, you are welcome to 
print it. Iam, sir, yours, &c. 
Witiram HERapatH. 
EARTHQUAKES. 
On Monday the 15th of October, at an early hour in the morn- 
ing, an earthquake was felt over the island of Bute. At Rothsay 
and in its vicinity, a tremulous motion was experienced, which 
lasted a few seconds, and is said by some to have been accom- 
panied by a sound similar to that of the distant rolling of carriage 
wheels. It was also felt at Greenock, though so slightly as not to 
excite speculation till corrobrated by the above information from 
Bute. Hes 
On Tuesday the 23rd of October, at 3 Pp. M., a shock of an 
earthquake, more severe and alarming than any previously ex- 
perienced in that quarter, was felt at Comrie. The noise which 
accompanied the shock was sensibly felt by many persons at the 
distance of nearly 20 miles in a southerly direction. A gentle- 
man of Stirling, who had been walking that day along the Teath 
with some friends, says that it took place about three o’clock in 
the afternoon. The noise, which was accompanied with a slight 
tremulous motion, is described as like the rolling of distant thun - 
der, but was at the same time so distinct, and sensibly felt by all of 
them, that each instantly declared it to be the effect of an earth- 
quake. The spot on which they were then standing is only 
about three miles north-west of Stirling: Similar effects were 
felt at Blacktord and neighbourhood, 
EXTRAORDINARY SHIPWRECK. 
On the 19th. of November, 1820, in lat. 47° S., long. 118° 
W. the American South Sea whaler Essex, of 250 tons, G. Poilard 
master, from Nantucket, met with the following singular acci- 
dent. On that day the vessel was among whales, and tliree boats 
were lowered down: the mate’s boat got stove, and had returned 
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