12 Weather at Kendal, in 1835. 



east, but never formed into complete bows. For a few days 

 before this appearance, the weather was frosty ; but after that, 

 to the end of the month, we had no frost. 



I have compared the facts which have transpired on the 

 weather during the year 1835, with the prognostics in the 

 weather table, now inserted in most almanacks, and have 

 found that the theory there laid down does not generally 

 apply to this district. In some instances, however, the pre- 

 dictions and the events have coincided most exactly. This 

 table, which is stated to be " constructed upon philosophical 

 consideration of the attraction of the sun and moon in their 

 several positions respecting the earth," has been ascribed to 

 the late Dr. Herschel, but, I believe, without foundation. 

 That these luminaries should, by their attraction, occasion 

 tides in the air, as well as in the waters of the ocean, there 

 can be little doubt ; and it is probable that they have a much 

 greater effect in producing atmospheric changes than has 

 been usually attributed to them. 



We experienced a Shock of an Earthquake, about 3 hrs. 40' 

 a.m., on August 20. The motion was sufficiently violent to 

 throw down objects that were but slightly supported, and to 

 occasion windows and doors to shake, and to rouse many 

 from their slumbers. Those persons who were awake at the 

 time were alarmed at the unusual sensation, and describe the 

 motion to be twofold ; a lateral one, as though bodies were 

 shaken from one side to another, accompanied by a quivering 

 motion. The sound followed the trembling, and was not so 

 much like the roll of distant thunder, as the noise occasioned 

 by the rapid motion of a loaded cart or waggon at a short 

 distance. The impression produced on such as were awake 

 at the time, as well as on those who were awaked by the 

 shock, was that of terror or alarm. From accounts since 

 received, it appears not to have extended much further than 

 Lancashire, and the western parts of Yorkshire, Westmore- 

 land, the southern and western parts of Cumberland ; and to 

 have been bounded on the east nearly, if not exactly, by the 

 great range of hills running from Cross Fell, Yorkshire, to 

 Derbyshire; and to have been most severe in the south of 

 Westmoreland and the north of Lancashire. The morning 

 was unusually clear and serene, and the weather had been 

 clear and sultry for three preceding days. In the evening, 

 there was a great deal of lightning, and but little thunder 

 heard. The following day (the 21st) was very sultry; and in 

 the evening we had a severe thunder storm, and another in 

 the evening of the 22d. 



26th of the 2d Month {Feb.), 1836. 



