THE KURRAJONG EARTHQUAKE. 97 



Report of Annie Courtenay of Mosrnan. 



"My son, age 13, and I were seated quietly in the study, 

 he reading and I writing, when we both heard a noise 

 resembling a thud accompanied by a vibration of crockery 

 in a cupboard in the room. The table at which I was seated 

 I could feel vibrate. We also heard a noise overhead as of 

 a heavy body rolling over the ceiling or roof, such a noise 

 as an oppossum might make. I really do not think that 

 the latter noise had anything to do with the earthquake 

 as it occurred a couple of seconds later ; I simply state 

 what happened. I instinctively glanced at the pictures on 

 the wall when I felt the vibration, so I can positively 

 assert that so far as I could see nothing had moved." 



Report of J. N. Forrest of North Sydney. 



" I was seated by the fireside reading to my wife when a 

 peculiar rumbling sound passed through the house, then 

 the dining room door and one window only started rattling 

 for some seconds, say equal to one and a half minutes, the 

 door first ceased, then immediately after the window 

 stopped, it kept on with a tapping noise for about twenty 

 seconds. From the position I was in I could not say if any 

 other part of the house was affected. I looked through 

 the window when the tremor was on, but except for a 

 certain darkness there was nothing unusual about the 

 night." 



Report of Marion Lockyer of Point Piper. 



"I was sitting in my room writing a letter to my brother 

 in Melbourne when the table I was writing on shook as if 

 some immense thing hit the front of the house. One of 

 the little girls was sleeping in a room at the back of mine 

 and she wakened up calling out 4 Some one is shaking my 

 bed.' Then one of the maids came up from the kitchen 

 and said, 'Oh! Miss Lockyer there was such a funny noise 

 downstairs,' so I told her I thought it must be a slight 

 shock of earthquake." 



G— July 6, 1921. 



