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 uncommonly variable, and changed from high gusts of wind, to a deep calm, a few days before the severest shocks of the earthquake. The air was moist and hazy, and the clouds seemed charged with electricity." Encyloæpdia Perthensis, vol. 7th. EAR.

Two shocks of an earthquake, (similar to those which began at the same place some years ago) have been lately felt at and near Comrie in Perthshire, one on the 17th of January, and the other on the 24th of February.

The motion of the earth was from West to East and lasted about two seconds, but the subterraneous noise, which accompanied it, continued much longer. Scots Magazine for March, 1799

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SALTMARKET, 1800.