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vals for two months; and at the time of the ſhock,
a noiſe like the diſcharge of diſtant artillery was
diſtinctly heard. Mr. Dundas and Mr. Bruce of
Edinburgh, were ſtanding before the fire in the
drawing room, and they deſcribed the ſhock, as
if a great mallet had ſuddenly ſtruck the founda-
tion of the houſe with violence. At the village of
Comrie, the inhabitants left their houſes and ran
to the open fields "-" On the 11th Nov. A. M.
in the ſame place, another ſhock was felt, which
was much more violent than that of the 5th. It
was accompanied with a hollow rumbling noiſe.
The ice on a piece of water near the houſe of La-
wers, was ſhivered to atoms." Mr. Creech, af-
ter quoting from the London Chronicle, the ac-
count of the earthquake at Borgo San Sepolcro, on
the 30th of Sept. 1789,adds, " It is very extraor-
dinary, that on the ſame day, near 3 P. M. two
or three diſtinct ſhocks were felt at the houſe of
Parſon's Green, within a mile of Edinburgh. The
houſe is ſituated on the N. ſide of Arthur's beat,
which is compoſed of an immenſe blue granite. Se-
veral viſitors were in the houſe to dine with the
family, and the whole company ran down ſtairs
from the drawing-room, and met the ſervants from
the kitchen, in the lobby, equally alarmed at what
had happened. They deſcribed the ſenſation, aſ
if the houſe had received two or three violent
blows in the foundation, ſo that all the furniture
ſhook."—" On the 10th Nov. 1792, three repeat-
ed ſhocks of an earthquake, accompanied with a
hollow rumbling noiſe, like that of diſtant thunder,
were felt at Loch Rannoch, in Perthſhire." Mr.
Creech concludes his account of theſe and other
phyſical phenomena, with an extract of a letter
from " Comrie, in Perthſhire," dated " Nov. 30th
1792,"from which we ſhall only quote the facts
ſtated. We have of late, been greatly alarmed with