prevalent Disorders, tyc, with Volcanic Emanations. 15 



ricane, which was felt at Paros on the next and following 

 day; while the Dardanelles, on the 11th, and the lat. 4-0° to 

 46° n., and long. 13° to 43° w., were visited, on the 10th 

 and 11th, by a similar occurrence. 



On November 26th, a most furious gale blew off the Scilly 

 Isles; the wind being dreadfully high all over the kingdom, 

 from the 21st to the 28th, attended with lightning.* On the 

 18th, there was a hurricane off Cape de Gatte, on the south 

 coast of Spain (a volcanic locality). On the 2d and 3d, the 

 coasts of France, England, Scotland, Norway, and the Baltic, 

 together with North Germany, experienced a dreadful series 

 of violent gales of true hurricane character: so intense were 

 these winds, that they actually blew the corn out of the 

 ground in Cumberland. October was a month of storms : 

 on the 26th, there was a dreadful storm off the north coast of 

 Candia, wherein nineteen vessels were lost ; and also at Mont- 

 real. H. M. S. Rattlesnake experienced a hurricane from 

 s. w., the same day, off Scilly. At the same time occurred an 

 extraordinary interchange of tides at Leith ; it was high 

 water when it should have been low, and vice versa, contrary 

 to the experience of the oldest navigator. On the same day, 

 also, the tide rose in Poole harbour (where there is no bore 

 to account for it) two feet in about as many minutes. On the 

 22d, an extraordinary gust of wind passed over a portion 

 of Cornwall and Devon, doing great damage at Plymouth 

 and other places, in a compass of not more than 100 yards, f 

 On the 20th, there were tempestuous gales at Vera Cruz, 

 and, during the month, at Singapore. The gales of the 12th 

 to the 14th have been already mentioned. (M. N. //., vii. 

 297.) On the 11th, occurred a hurricane off the Isle of Am- 

 sterdam ; on the 9th, at the Mauritius ; and, on the 5th, in 

 lat. 56° s., long. 23° e. 



On Sept. 26th, occurred most violent gales at Odessa, 

 lasting ten days, and preceded by the drought. On the 14th, 

 there was a hurricane in lat. 45° n., long. 17°w. 



* On Nov. 27. 1833, there was a most unusual display of phosphoric light 

 in Weymouth Bay, which may, perhaps, assist in establishing the peculiar 

 nature of that season, even if, as recently surmised, the phosphorescence 

 of the sea be not electrical, nor owing to animalcula, but to the decom- 

 position of animal matter, which is said to be the cause of the excessive 

 phosphorescence of the warm Indian Ocean. (See Howison, On the Co- 

 lonies, vol. i. p. 386.) 



t A similar gale occurred at Lisbon, wrecking thirty-three vessels, on 

 Nov. 7. 1816. Ten minutes before, it was perfectly calm. The rapidity of 

 the storm was very remarkable. In Scoresby's Arctic Regions are men- 

 tioned many similar occurrences, (vol. i. p. 408.) The tide rose and fell 

 at Portsmouth on Jan. 12., 1828, as at Poole, two feet, during a violent 

 storm. 



