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14 EARTHQUAKES IN

August, 1816.

Although Britain happily is not seat of these dreadful agitations of  it has yet occasionally experienced them  a minor degree. During the which destroyed Lisbon in 1756, the  both of Loch Lomond and of Loch T rose, in five minutes very  above their natural level, and then  as rapidly. At the same time shocks felt in different parts of England; and  one place in Yorkshire, a rock was  from its place, and thrown to some  in shattered fragments. In 1801, a smart shock was felt entirely across  island, from Greenock to Edinburgh. centre appears, however, to have been Strathearn. Three years afterwards, 1804, a series of less severe shocks were  in the latter quarter, particularly at Comr

The present earthquake appears to extended entirely across the island, at  point considerably more to the north  any of those now alluded to. Its seems to have been from WNW. to ES The shock was felt on the western coast of Ross-shire, at Gairlosh and