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from N. W. to S. E. and by others from N. E. to S. W. ; that 

 they have not been obferved to affect the barometer ; that they 

 do not extend in any direction above three or four miles from 

 Comrie ; and that towards the fouth they are bounded by the 

 Earn, which is in the immediate vicinity of the village. The 

 fame perfon, though beitowing the minuteft attention, is often 

 uncertain whether they proceed from the earth or from the air, 

 fometimes believing them to come from the one, and fometimes 

 from the other ; neither do all agree with refpect to the feat of 

 any one of them. 



After the ftricteft enquiry, I find it impoflible to determine 

 with accuracy the date of any of the concumons which took 

 place before the 2d of September laft. Some people in the 

 neighbourhood of Killin affert pofitively, that they heard un- 

 ufual rumbling noifes in the month of May ; but the impre£ 

 fion which thefe noifes made was fo faint, that they would pro- 

 bablv have been foon forgotten altogether, had they not been 

 fucceeded by concuiTions of a lefs equivocal nature. Towards the 

 end of Auguft, two or three (hocks are faid to have been felt at 

 Dundurn, Dunira Lodge and Comrie j but I have not been able 

 to learn the precife day, or hour on which any of them happen- 

 ed. The truth is, the concumons hitherto obferved were feeble, 

 and the minds of the people feem not to have been roufed to 

 particular attention till the 2d of September. About eleven 

 o'clock that evening, a fmart fhock was felt at Comrie. I my- 

 felf heard here , for the fir ft time, a rumbling noife, which I 

 took for that of a large table, dragged along the floor above 

 flairs, and which I probably would never have thought of 

 again, unlefs my attention had been turned to it by the alarm, 

 which it had excited in the neighbourhood. Many other feeble 

 noifes or concumons are faid to have been obferved in Glen- 

 Leadnach and about Comrie during the months of September 

 and October. At that time, however, I confefs I was difpofed 

 to doubt the numerous reports of earthquakes with which the 

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* Ochtertyre is about four miles E. N. E. from Comrie. 



