28 Some Account of Walton Hall, 



from the east, fierce as if from a furnace, was felt in Dublin ; 

 the wind continuing to blow at intervals of a minute. {Dublin 

 Evening Packet.) About two hours later on the same night, 

 two persons, walking between Mount Pleasant and Nieuydd, 

 near Caernarvon, perceived a similar phenomenon : the hot 

 gust came from the n.w. ; and it is described as having the 

 same effect upon the face as if it had been exposed to the 

 escape-plate of a stove for heating air. It lasted a minute. 

 (Caernarvon Herald.) In neither case was there any mistake 

 as to a limekiln or furnace. Now, the winds, in these 

 examples (for they appear but continuations of one current), 

 must have moved in a circular form, from e. to n.w., at about 

 the rate of thirty-five miles an hour ; the difference in latitude 

 of the two localities being twelve miles, and in long. 2° 7'. If 

 it be supposed that these gusts of hot air were not parts of the 

 same current, then it may be apprehended that, on the line 

 between Dublin and Caernarvon (the latter frequently subject 

 to earthquakes), there was some emanation of terrestrial heat. 

 Almost coincident with this were a terrific thunder storm at 

 Dover, on the 17th; and a tornado, doing great mischief 

 (literally blowing away houses and barns), which took place, 

 in Buckinghamshire (at Ivinghoe, &c), on the 18th: and, on 

 comparing all the localities, it will be perceived that the line 

 of connection between Dublin and Dover passes through the 

 localities of the tornado in Bucks, and of the hot wind at 

 Caernarvon. Moreover, this is a line not unmarked by 

 shocks of earthquake at previous times ; and, on this sup- 

 position, the tornado on the 18th is properly accounted for 

 as the result of a disengagement of electrical or terrestrial 

 heat. 



Stanley Green, Nov, 1834. 



{Errata in Mr. Clarke' s Essay, No. 4. (VII. 609 — 630.) — 

 In p. 614., the last line but three of the text, for " latter " 

 read " former." In p. 627. line 1 1. from the bottom, for 

 " 42° e." read " 42° n."] 



Art. II. Some Account of Walton Hall, the Seat of Charles 

 Waterton, Esq. By James Stuart Menteath, Esq. 



" The birds, . . . 



Securely there they build, and there 

 Securely hatch their young." 



Having often wished to visit Walton Hall, my wish was 

 not long ago gratified. In consequence of an invitation from 



