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country was rilled, and to afcribe them to the workings of an 

 imagination, on which the alarm of the 2d of September flill 

 continued to be imprefled. 



On the 5th of November, a concuflion took place two or 

 three minutes before fix o'clock P. M. which was too violent to 

 be miltaken. Some compared the noife which accompanied it 

 to that of heavy loaded waggons, dragged with great velocity 

 along a hard road or pavement, and thought, that it patted under 

 their feet. To me it feemed as if an enormous weight had 

 fallen from the roof of the houfe, and rolled with impetuofity 

 along the floor of the rooms above ; and it muft have made a 

 fimilar impreflion on the fervants, for fome of them inftantly 

 ran up flairs to difcover what had happened. Others were fen- 

 fible of a tremulous motion in the earth, perceived the flames 

 of the candles to vibrate, and obferved the mirrors and kitchen- 

 utenfils placed along the walls to fliake and clatter. There is 

 alfo reafon to believe, that the waters in the Loch of Monivaird, 

 in the near neighbourhood of Ochtertyre, fufFered unufual agi- 

 tation, as the wild fowl then upon the loch were heard to fcream 

 and flutter. The noife on this occafion, as far as I can judge, did 

 not laft above ten or twelve feconds. During the courfe of the 

 day, the mercury in the barometer rofe and fell feveral times, 

 and at fix o'clock it flood at 28^ inches. The fky was then per- 

 fectly ferene, and hardly a breath of wind was to be felt ; but 

 next morning, about fix o'clock, a violent tempeft rofe, which 

 raged without intermiflion for twenty-four hours. 



At Glen-Leadnach, Comrie and Lawers, this concuflion was 

 much more violent, and the noife that accompanied it much 

 more alarming. The inhabitants of thefe places, and of 

 Aberuchill and Dunira, declare, that they perceived diftinctly 

 the earth heaving under them, and the motion communicated 

 to their chairs, and other furniture. They imagined that 

 the flates and (tones were tumbling from their houfes, and 

 many of them ran out in the greateft trepidation, from the 



notion, 



