398 THE CARLISLE AND INVERNESS EARTHQUAKES. [| Aug. 1902, 
country. The Carlisle earthquake appeared exceptional, at first 
sight, in the fact that the direction of the presumed deep-seated 
fault-line ran almost meridionally, or from north to south, instead 
of diagonally, or from north-east to south-west, which is the strike 
of the deep-seated rocks of the Lake District. But it behoved us to 
remember that this meridional or Malvernian trend is practically 
that of the neighbouring Pennine Chain as a whole, and of the 
typical portion of its great Craven Fault. 
In regard to the Inverness earthquakes, it was most significant 
to notice that where, as in this case, the fault-plane is of very great 
length, the earthquake-movement is of proportionate magnitude. 
While the oscillation-earthquakes along the fault-line itself might 
be due to the gradual and intermittent adjustment of the parts upon 
the opposite walls of the fault-fissure, it was not unlikely that the 
sympathetic earthquakes of the Findhorn, etc. might be owing to 
those broader areas of the earth-crust which extend for many miles — 
from the fault-plane also slowly settling down into equilibrium 
with the new conditions of crust-strain brought about by the main 
earthquake. As respects the view that Loch Ness was still growing, 
the Author’s idea seemed to be in harmony with the speaker’s own 
suggestion made many years since, that the Loch-Ness depression 
in general is an ‘intermont valley’ the sides of which are gradually 
approximating because of crust-creep. If so, the lake is deepening, 
but not necessarily increasing proportionately in length. 
