(50'1 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aN^O 1762. 



drove into the loch; several boats were cast very far upon dry land; in the middle 

 of the loch the water swelled up like a mountain, extremely muddy, and the 

 motion was attended with a very uncommon hollow sound. By a subsequent 

 account from the same place, the water is said to. have risen near 30 inches, 

 between the hours of I'l and 1 p.m. and continued for near half an hour. It is 

 added, an instance similar to this happened here at the time of the Lisbon earth-, 

 quake in 1755. 



On the coast of Ireland, from Cork, there was advice that on the same 31st 

 of March, a quarter after noon, a shock of an earthquake was felt in that city, 

 and between the gates only, allowed to be more violent than that of November 

 1, 1755. It did not continue above one minute, undulating from east to west, 

 and vice vers4. At Kinsale, about 6 o'clock p. m. near dead low water, the 

 tide rose suddenly on the strand, about 2 feet higher than it was, and went out 

 again in the space of 4 minutes, with great force, which repeated several times ; 

 but the first was the greatest. At Amsterdam the branches in the synagogue 

 were observed to vibrate between 1 and 2 o'clock. In the great church at Maes- 

 land-Slys, the branches moved about a foot from the perpendicular, and the 

 vessels in the harbour were agitated. 



But this earthquake was felt more violently on the ocean, between the coasts of 

 Spain and the British channels. Ships on their passage from that part of the 

 continent, many leagues to the westward of Cape Finisterre, felt an unusual 

 agitation of the sea, as if they had struck on sunken rocks ; the time agreeing 

 with that of Cork and Fort Augustus. Captain Woodward, of the Expedition 

 packet-boat, sailed from Lisbon March 29. On the 31st, soon after he had 

 passed the rocks of Lisbon, in the morning, and almost calm, the sea swelled to 

 a great degree, with a rumbling noise. The vessel was tossed about as if in a 

 storm. The agitation continued 4 minutes. ,;, 



The Gosport man of war, off the rock of Lisbon, at ^ past 1 1 in the forenoon, 

 felt two violent shocks of an earthquake; the first continued near a minute and 

 half, the second not so long. Under the convoy of the Gosport, were several 

 ships, all affected in the same manner. One off Lisbon felt the shock, attended 

 with a noise, as if empty casks had been tossed about in the hold. The ship 

 immediately made a good many inches of water, which proceeded from the seams 

 opening ; the vessel shaking in so dreadful a manner, that under the apprehen- 

 sions that the ship was sinking, the people threw out their boat, and got all 

 things ready for leaving her, then about 50 leagues from shore. In the latitude 

 43, not many leagues ofl' shore, in her passage from Lisbon, the Amey of Bristol, 

 Capt. Condon, felt a most violent shock. The concussion was so great, that it 

 shook the needle off the spindle of the compass; and immediately after arose 

 such a storm of wind and rain as he never before met with. The shock was 



