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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, Xorthamp- 
tonsliire ; March 15th, Newcastle, Manchester, and Yorkshire ; 
Dec. 21st, Worcester, Grloucester, 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, August 29th, 
Anglesea, Caernarvon, etc., with noise like waggons ; slight shock at 
Lisbon ; Dec, North Wales ; Dec. 18, Newcastle, York, Leeds, etc. 
1782, Oct. 5!h, 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 6t]i, 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, Armside, in 
Westmoreland, violent, accompanied by an explosion louder than 
thunder ; at daybreak two clefts were found in the earth, one of wliich 
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, Eipon. 1799, Jan. 17th and Feb. 24th, 
Comrie, in Perthshire. 1801, 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 Portsmouth, a violent 
shock during the Caraccas earthquake. 1813, Sept. 24th, Stamford, 
Peterborough, etc. 1816, March 17th, Sheffield, Nottingham, Lin- 
