XI. An Account of repeated Shocks of Earthquakes felt at 

 Comrie in Perthshire, in a Letter to the Reverend 

 Mr Finlatson, F. R. S. Edin. from Mr Ralph Bailor. 

 Communicated by Mr Finlatson. 



[Read April 5. 1790, and Feb. 4. 1793.] 



Dear Sir, Ocbtertyre t fan. 19. 1790. 



THE earthquakes which have lately taken place at Comrie* 

 and its neighbourhood, are certainly very deferving of 

 attention. I fhall therefore cheerfully comply with your re- 

 queft, and give you as particular a defcription as 1 can of fuch 

 of them as have been molt remarkable. To give a particular 

 account of all the noifes or concuffions which, during the lad 

 half-year, have been heard or felt at Comrie, and within a fhort 

 diftance to the north, eafl and weft of that village, is beyond 

 my power, and would indeed be of little ufe. With regard to 

 thefe fmall concufTions, it will be fufficient to fay, that many 

 of them have fometimes been obferved to fucceed one another 

 in the fpace of a few hours ; that they take place in all kinds 

 of weather ; that they are thought by fome people to proceed 



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* Comrie is a village about twenty-two miles weft of Prrth, fituated in the vallc of 

 Strath-Earn, and on the north fide of the river Earn, about four miles below the place 

 where it ifl'ues from the lake. Thr remains of a Roman camp on the oppofite fide of the 

 river, have made the name of this vdlage very well known to Scottifli an'iquanes. 



