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London, England, 1816-08-20 00:00:00

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the rtialtikle Itatee Wittiest 1'6.4 wet:mph° the
Ikon of the rooms above olitheads. The wholitfooes
and windows rattled, mad gp looe.a.d. I*.
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wh;eh I rat, were heaved pnererfoll; and tip
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and down under ow. so *at' I felt as if -gin
grew; in a cart, driven violently ovey newly road.
O. lamp before me wonted 10 dance befainAlly ryes,
1 instantly exclaimed that it W.as an eel= ;
,sad.
msg. C. who had twice erperited tee es the
Continent. 'greed With am. • whole hlitaioltaa•
ipstaatlyla confusion; • Ms: la cattle Wolfing Millie
top of the stairs. eaclainsliqr with .lateprisei 'sew
orate sett ants, ?illn lay. at the. to. cif the•harth pa xe 91,
the heuse, were awskened.frons e deep sleep b
seise, and the movement of the Sam and theie Oaii,
and pale as death,' gad shrieking with alarini:ttdh.
ed down stairs 'in - tfie most 'horrible Appytiliehtlint,'
firmly persuaded-that the day of judgment Was come.
c. H. who:hai just got into bed,. ealkd oat that Jais
bed and the roam were moving with him—and the
man servant, who sic* ill a WIFAI .rannt Os the
mund etuor, having just pot,outslis eandle to Qto
&d, was heaved up and diseiniis the sense alareomg
' par. • 4 think it, conteinii. d lather' more than .three.l
quarters et a minute, in. such a way that I Itiedly
ispetted that the home. could stand its viol/nisi' but
(IE4 after the momsensibli effects of• it were over,
such doors within the house. as happened to be open,
wercmoved rapidly hackwards and forwards, creak-
ifig upon tbeir hinges, for at considerable time; so
that the awleendurance of die phenomena might be.
a bunt 4 .6A -1j4,0 half... We-wens. persuaded ibex-
th e
.4win.ork ;ma ,figanicore, he thnbed rooms most keib.
been broken, and :the . kitchen . utensils shaken :clown';
fronsvitywoliao bac on examination no each damage-1
'seemed to-have Lees done. The sonnet: and motiool
veined to come in& direction from the north. The
liaromOury which •was about IV 2(l', did not appear ,
to be effected. Fahrenheit's thertnotiseter was 7.54.
• degrees. , .The night was chart sad the swoon bright:
" The pm ions day, and particularly the evening,
~ Ind been aemarkably still ; and towards sunset, the
/Ay was Flew, with the light clouds stretching is
lwixontal lines across it, and which might have per-
haps been defined by the meteorological term titres,
it I rightlyonderstand Mr. Howard's nomenclatuve
of. clouds. The earthquake was followed by the mow
stillness which.bad preceded it. This morning /COs
calm, and we have had a constant rain all ilse.foro•
noon. Sucb is the result of my own observations.—
. At Logic, the leerily v!erip
.thrown., into Abe most
• dreadful alarm: bl;the smug phenomena. and the
• bells were set to ringing.); which, . indeed, may have
Inta the calm hem. though we did not notice it in
the coafusion. ,i,l4.mast of the cottages aronntials it i
was dtsanctly.felt, and their inhabitants were awalti.
"pl. One of. Sir James Cunningham's tenants,
Owe miles up the rivet Findhurn, to the westward.
felt its effects in his cottage . most violently. I con-
low d with a man who,. at the time of, the thev.k, I
iiirAvaing on snot in the,rnountains neari.achin.
tieth, "ten miles to the south of this house. and; who
geve'me a very dirinct accoont of his sensations.—
*said 'be was fins alarmed by o sudden: and tre-.
eopalnuenoise of a rushing win& which came sweep.
4. legepche bills, like 4 roar. of . water—this was in-
-11 legantly followed by tbe• rumbling noise ',seedy
tll es+bedj..acA the•ground.awa* ar.paiblz Jae/Awed op
*donn ander his feet. ...... . ,77 • -'3 : 'VA' ".
. 14 w j -hoe tad4bflialtriiillriaaiiis CC& as
t , igtelty frongForresween miles to tbenottls of this,'
i *brie it created an iniasingsJarm. ' One gentleman:
• writes met that =0: ar..eloset door in his house,
atuirda4 ai 4 pia against the wall, and shook a
bird's clge standing on a table. The other sanioont
telly me, that many belle in• different lonises wow
rung by ewe cit.lence of the shock. It was alibi*
in iliffetent pant! ,if the country, as in the pail of
*admit, is Nairnshire—at Mr1Y.....41 Orono* ace;
. The disukt to. which my information alarady-tells.
: me its etlects.'have extended is not less than ewasty 1
iiii# in length by ten. in breadth •; but there is no 1
i =that when we shall have lima, trt collect all the
. euce Irons difft-kent quarters, it will tuns one
,letbeee been mere, genet:llly end estensively felt.--
‘t-rinm the difference ri time in .the vstioustlecks and
iottcliea in different houses, it is notseasy.tU aseertiin
precise morarai when the shock (mak ~ piece, hnt.
thin* 4 mighl hate heen about 26 Manual* from
*yen o'clock:!. • .

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a A most extraordinary thing ~happened to • evils
quarter, shirt .ten minutes before eleven o'clock
.last night—nothing More nor less than a shock of. as
estrhquake, which might have lasted. about the third',
q a minors. Pf he. houses eisook,.and-the inhabitants
were dreadfully alarmed,. as nothing of that kende,*
happened helot& .Ne damage was done, farther.shas
;good fright. We hark happened not to bcia.bed.
and we had .anz oppsrtsmity of perceiving she:whelk
effects of the Shock,,. • The glasses no the table shook.
as well in the. tabu ts and thairs--the doors also made
a anise, and a..lowAhiags in. the garret rattled about.
lbelisve is one lanuefohis obiekk was so great Ilia the
bells in it Mere ,et a ringing. In short, to-day these
is Sto Abet convitrAetioa.ie 'airframe the earthquake."
. • .1/11 Zxvasxtns, AtICANT-

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" About a quarter of an' hour betore eleven n't luck
ite last night, we experienced a violeM cmmussion of.the
earth.. Our principal .weeple is a 1 sr . deal injured,
and wgreat Illienyablinney4nytelltreb.n to themiddle
the streets: bells were rung. by it, and bell wire&
broken to pleas. • Women fainted, and many use*
a in the greets almost naked, ealling.out thatch*
Children had been 'WU is their arms. }have not,
believer, heard Of real injury, eacept that done:to
prtperty : many:lmamate daniaged, and almost the
*bole wive forsaken by the inhabitants, who lied Erdal
beiwn‘ under as impression, that from the ealusnoss
re, closeness of the night a second shock might min.
' bYd gone to bed here and begun to sleep. •After
trailing noises which .lasted for a full minute,•.ll
saver w4s so towed on board of ship as I was is bed,-.
betore I could ribk, for fell five minutes. At art 1
tole and went to my family, about two •asiits out of
town, and found dm two female servants had Vim
.4 bed, with their mistress, but a lad rose 40 search
t'le house in cafe of fire. On my way, I met4wn
gentlemen who left ficabank House.. They said &ex,
believed it was drove down the Moray Frith. Lahti
die shock tams in.a south.west directioshAvoin Loch.
as.. _ &e. and I understand by the guard of dat .44-
each that it was equally Eels at Nan, aka" - • • f
daemon Lama /ROM DIVX&11/11111. SAMS DATIL
" At 17 minutes before. 11 o'clock, P.M. of the
nth ins ant, there was eepericactd here, and tor

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