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24 Consuls are situated has suffered the most. A part of the city lies in ruins. Several villages i environs are wholly destroyed. Of the little Gibelette three-fourths are destroyed. Its is chocked up by the ruins of the houses that  fallen into it. Three hundred persons have lost lives on this occasion.

EARTHQUAKE AT COMRIE, 1822.

Extract of a letter, dated Comrie 15th "About half past nine on Saturday (the 13th inst) while at brcakfastbreakfast [sic], we were visited with the  shock of an earthquake that has been felt in neighbourhood for the last fifteen or twenty  It was accompanied by two very loud reports apparently above our heads, and the other, v followed immediately afterwards, under our . The noise of thcsethese [sic], which was more terrific  thunder, lasted, I should think, fully thirty  It set our kitchen utensils a-ringing, and  down some of the covers of the pots and   have felt much severer shocks in the West  but not accompanied with such a noise.  The  it created in me was exactly like that I  on the deck of a vessel on her guns being 22.—This morning, betwcenbetween [sic] nine and ten  a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at  accompanied by a rumbling noise  falling of a building.—It was felt and heard  Strathtay.