] 4 Supposed Connection of ^Meteoric Phenomena, 



Isle of Man, on the 7th ; Lisbon the same day ; Barbadoes, 

 on the 16th to the 18th; and Dominica, on the 19th, pre- 

 ceded by an earthquake at Jamaica, on the 14th ; and the 

 Mauritius, by a more dreadful hurricane than any since 1818, 

 on the 20th ; the wind, in this case, not blowing all round 

 the compass, but from s. e. to n., carrying away the largest 

 buildings. On Jan. 20. and 22., Pasto and Popayan, in New 

 Grenada, were so desolated by earthquakes that scarcely three 

 houses were left standing. The heat of the preceding day, and 

 the moisture of the night, were unprecedented. The month 

 of January was also most stormy in the Atlantic (a dreadful 

 gale occurred, on Jan. 21., in lat. 47° 25' N., and long. 

 13° 43' w.), and in England and France; thunder and light- 

 ning being frequent, and the barometer continually rising and 

 falling. Several harbours, as at St. Valery and Dieppe, were 

 completely blocked up by the shingle brought in by the set 

 of the sea {Echo de Rouen) ; great masses of the cliffs on the 

 west coasts of Ireland and England were undermined ; and, 

 in America, greater damage was done than ever remembered. 

 During the storms in America, in this month, and December, 

 1833, a natural canal was cut through Long Point, on Lake 

 Erie, 400 yards wide, and from 8 ft. to 10 ft. deep, by the 

 gales. It was here that the government had begun a cut ; 

 but the storm saved them all further trouble, and an expense 

 of 12,000/. (the estimated cost), by converting the peninsula 

 into an island ; and all that was required was to put a pier 

 at the w r est side, to preserve the channel. {Kingston Herald 

 and York Courier.) * 



In December, 1833, on the 31st, there was a most violent 

 hurricane in London, Liverpool, &c, from w.n.w. ; on the 

 29th, at the Mauritius ; on the 26th, from n.w., at Trieste, 

 where the fury of the storm lasted about two hours, and was 

 so confined, that, though many ships in the harbour were 

 destroyed, a mile beyond it was smooth water and calm ; and, 

 on the same day, in the Bosphorus. On the 23d, the coast 

 of St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; and, on the 17th and 18th, 

 England, experienced a hurricane; on the 14th, Constan- 

 tinople was ravaged, from the north, by a most dreadful hur- 



thage, owing to a lull of the wind, and then a furious gale from the s.w.,in 

 the year of Rome 549. (b.c. 204.) Charles V., also, as is well known, 

 losthis fleet off Algiers, in November, 1541, by a dreadful hurricane. On 

 Dec. 30. 1832, and, again, from April 2. to 6. 1833, there were hurricanes 

 off the coast of Egypt. ( Voyage du Luxor.) 



* At Havre de Grace the gales of October, 1834, have accumulated an 

 immense and dangerous shingle bank. In 1832, a similar accumulation off 

 the mouth of the Nile was cleared by a violent storm on Dec. 30. 



