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ground, she saw the foot of the bed moving slightly from side to 
side (north and south) and heard the windows rattle. The sound 
seemed to her to precede the shaking by a few seconds, but she 
did not conceive that the whole lasted more than from five to ten 
seconds. The air appeared hazy to her and to several other per- 
sons. The atmosphere felt close and disagreeable during the day. 
Lieutenant Colonel Faunce, living about three-quarters of a 
mile west of the observatory, has informed me, that the noise and 
shock appeared to him to come from^ the south-east and to pro- 
ceed in a north-westerly direction : the noise seemed in or on the 
surface of the ground and the noise and shock lasted at least six 
or seven seconds. The shock was rather strong, his right leg was 
swayed from right to left (i. e. east to west) while he was sitting 
facing the north and his whole body felt the movement : Colonel 
Faunce also thinks that the sound preceded the shock. The win- 
dows rattled considerably. He likened the noise to that of a 
steam carriage ; a rumbling sound terminating louder than it com- 
menced, 
Dr. Sperschneider, three-quarters of a mile north-west of the 
observatory, also felt the shock. The noise he says began a few 
seconds before the earthquake and lasted a few seconds after it. 
It appeared to Dr. Sperschneider to go off in a westerly or north- 
westerly direction ; the windows and roof of his house trembled. 
Dr. Waring, about a mile and half north of the observatory, 
heard and felt the earthquake though apparently not so markedly 
as by the others. I am told that about the same distance south 
south-east of the observatory the shock was very distant ; while 
within the fort about two miles south of the observatory the earth- 
quake was not perceived at all. It should be noted that about the 
Fort decomposed granitic rocks are covered by a thick stratum of 
sand, while all the other stations are immediately on laterite rock. 
The shock it seems was felt at Quilon " about six o'clock," and 
Mr. Liddell at Charlio's Hope near the road between Quilon and 
Courtallum says " we had a smart shock of an earthquake about 
ten minutes before six on Monday morning." 
