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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." 



