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 intervals for two months; and at the time of the ſhock, a noiſe like the diſcharge of diſtant artillery was diſtinctly heard. Nr. 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 foundation 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 Lavers, was ſhivered to atoms." Mr. Creech, after quoting from the London Chronicle the account of the earthquake at Bergo San Sepulcro, on the 30th of Sept. 1759, 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 at 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 repeated ſhocks of an earthquake, accompanied with a hollow rumbling noiſe, like that of diſtant thunder, were felt at Loch Rannoch, in Periſhſhire." 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