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MR MILNE ON A REMARKABLE OSCILLATION OF THE SEA. 



Liverpool. The thunder-storm occurred about 5 h 30' P.M. It passed off in 

 about half-an-hour, and went towards the N., which was remarked to be the ordi- 

 nary direction of severe thunder-storms. During the height of the storm, the 

 wind was very violent, stripping houses of their plaster. At Hilbre Island, hail- 

 stones fell, some of which were 4 inches in circumference. 



Howden, in Yorkshire (about ten miles W. of Hull). The storm began about 

 6 P.M. 



York. A gentleman travelling on the railway, writes that, " about 7 P.M., 

 when ten miles south of York, a most unusually violent thunder-storm, with very 

 vivid lightning, came on from the south." 



Scarborough. The storm began at 7 h 30' P.M. The thunder and lightning 

 continued till near midnight. 



Newcastle. The following extracts from a Meteorological Register, shew the 

 time at which the storm arrived there, and the manner in which the wind 

 veered : 



It is stated in the newspapers that at 8 P.M. the storm commenced, and at 

 this time, the lightning was very vivid. It was over in an hour. 



Sunderland. It is stated that the storm came on here about 5 P.M. ; but it 

 did not reach its greatest violence till about 8 P.M. The surrounding atmosphere 

 appeared then to be one mass of flame. At 9 P.M. it moderated, and soon after 

 became fair. 



Carlisle. The storm began shortly after 6 P.M., and continued till near 9 P.M. 



Dumfries. The storm occurred there between 6 and 7 P.M. It was the 

 most awful which had occurred, within the memory of the present generation. 

 There were from twenty to twenty-five flashes in a minute. 



Glasgow. Here the thunder-storm commenced a few minutes before 7 P.M. 

 But no thunder was heard twenty or thirty miles west of Glasgow ; and it is 

 still more remarkable, that there was no gale of wind at Glasgow at all. The 

 Anemometer Register at the Observatory, of which an extract was sent to me by 

 Professor NICHOLL, shews not only that the wind during the course of the day 



