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around for thirteen miles. 1762, March 16th, Wexford ; March 20th, 

 Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire. 1766, Jan. 10th, Glamorganshire. 1767, 

 April 20th, west of Stirling, Scotland. 1768, Jan. 3rd, Northamp- 

 tonshire ; March 15th, Newcastle, Manchester, and Yorkshire ; 

 Dec. 21st, Worcester, Gloucester, etc., and in mountains of Scotland; 

 Dec. 29th, Herefordshire. 1769, Nov., Inverness. 1771, April 29th, 

 Berkshire ; Aug. 24th, Cheshire. 1773, April 15th, Dorsetshire, in 

 connection with St. Malo, Guernsey, Jersey. 1775, Shropshire. 

 1776, Oct. 28th, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, etc.; Nov. 27th, 

 Kent, also at Calais ; Dec. 24th, Inverness. 1777, Sept. 14th, Lan- 

 cashire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, etc. 1780, x4_ugust 29th, 

 Anglesea, Caernarvon, etc., with noise like waggons ; slight shock at 

 Lisbon ; Dec, North Wales ; Dec. 18, Newcastle, York, Leeds, etc. 

 1782, Oct. 5th, Flintshire, etc., rather violent. 1783, April 23rd, 

 Colebrookdale ; Aug. 9, Cornwall. 1784, Dec. 6th, English coasts. 

 1784, south of Scotland, Isle of Man, and Dublin. 1786, at Lan- 

 caster, in Cumberland, at Newcastle, Glasgow, and Isle of Man — 

 with rumbling noise. 1787, July 6th, Cumberland. 1788, July 8th, 

 Isle of Man, — the sea suddenly receded at Dunbar. 1789, May 5th, 

 Devonshire; Sept. 2nd, Perthshire; Sept. 26th, Shropshire; Sept. 

 30th, Edinburgh ; Nov. 5th, Cromarty and Crieff; Nov. 10th and 

 11th, and Dec. 29th, at Comrie, Perthshire. 1790, Arm side, in 

 Westmoreland, violent, accompanied by an explosion louder than 

 thunder ; at daybreak two clefts were found in the earth, one of which 

 was very deep and two hundred feet in length. 1791, Sept. 2nd, 

 Comrie, Perthshire ; Oct. 28th, in England. 1792, Feb. 25th, Lin- 

 colnshire ; March 1st, Bedford, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, etc., 

 rather severe, tremulous motion ; Nov. (?), Comrie, Perthshire. 1793, 

 Sept. 28th, Salisbury and Shaftesbury. 1795, Comrie, Perthshire ; 

 Nov. 18th, from Leeds to Bristol, and Norwich to Liverpool, S.W. 

 to N.E. 1796, Oct. 23rd, Bipon. 1799, Jan. 17th and Feb. 24th, 

 Comrie, in Perthshire. 1S01, June, Chester and neighbourhood; Sept. 

 7th, whole of Scotland — the centre seemingly at Comrie, Perthshire. 

 1802, Oct. 26th, Caermarthen, in Wales. 1805, Jan. 12th, Valley of 

 Clwyd, North Wales ; March 21st, in England. 1809, Jan. 18th, 

 Dunning, Perthshire, preceded by subterranean noise, like thunder. 

 1812, Jan. 18th, Oxfordshire ; May 1st, Gloucestershire, accompa- 

 nied by a noise like thunder ; Nov. 13th, at Portsmout 7 , a violent 

 shock during the Caraccas earthquake. 1813, Sept. 24tl Stamford, 

 Peterborough, etc. 1816, March 17th, Sheffield, Nottr gham, Lin- 



