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 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 Lawers, was shivered to atoms." Mr. Creech, after quoting from the London Chronicle, the account of the earthquake at Borgo San Sepolcro, on the 30th of Sept. 1789, adds, "It is very extraordinary, 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 Seat, which is composed of an immense blue granite. Several 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 on the foundation, so that all the furniture shook." "On the 10th Nov. 1792, three repeated 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 several very severe shocks of an earthquake. They were more sensible and alarming, than any felt formerly, and the noise attending them was uncommonly loud and tremulous. It appeared probably more so, from the stillness of the atmosphere, and reverberation of the surrounding mountains. The houses were greatly shaken, and the furniture from its place. The weather had been