2^4 ACCOUNT of EARTHQUAKES 



of November. Several mocks have happened during the ftill- 

 nefs of the night, which, even at this diftance from Comrie, 

 where their centre feems to be, have been abundantly terrifying. 

 But the great refemblance, or rather the perfect fimilarity of 

 their effects, and of the impremon they make on our minds, 

 renders it unneceffary for me to trouble you with a particular 

 defcription of each of them. 



The direction of all the noifes or concuflions I have obferved, 

 great as well as fmall, appeared to be in the fame line from 

 N. W. to S. E. Others defcribe them as fometimes proceeding 

 in that direction, and fometimes as coming from N. E. to S. VV. 

 I have not heard any other line of direction afcribed to them. 



Upon the fulled: enquiry, 1 find, that thefe earthquakes have 

 been very limited in point of extent. The greater mocks have 

 been feebly felt at Loch Earn head, about Killin, and at Ar- 

 donich, on the fouthern bank of I.och Tay. They do not ap- 

 pear to have extended farther eaftward on that lake ; and, what 

 is more remarkable, they have not been felt in Glen- Almond, or 

 the fmall glen through which the military road from Crieff to 

 Tay bridge paries. The farmer at Auchnafree, (which lies at the 

 head of Glen- Almond, and is feparated from^Glen Leadnach only 

 by the mountain Benechoni, over the northern fide of which his 

 fhepherds daily travel), has affured me, that neither he, nor any of 

 his people, have been at anytime fenfibleof the leaf! extraordinary 

 noife or concumon. Towards the eaft. the two firft great {hocks 

 extended to Monzie, Cultoquhey and Dollary, about feven miles 

 diftant from Comrie. The fhock of the 5th of November reached 

 ftill farther, and was felt, though but faintly* at Ardoch and Drum- 

 mond Caftle towards the S. E. In the direction of the fouth, how- 

 ever, the banks of the Earn feem to be its general boundary, 

 as the noife of the mod violent concuflions was heard but faintly 

 at the manfe of Comrie, and along the ft rath on the fouth 

 fide of the river. The limits of the lefTer concuflions, I 

 am confident, do not extend above three miles in any di- 

 rection 



