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the Fell tops, and all the other parts were clear, the slender Bar stretching from 
about Howgill Castle to Kirkland, at about the apparent level of the second 
ledge of Cross Fell, or that of the Silver Band Mine. About half way between 
the Fell foot and Milburn, say # mile from the bar, we suddenly became aware 
that we had lost the wind and it was dead calm,—so still that a lighted candle 
might easily have been carried bare. We searched our pockets for matches to 
test it, but unfortunately they were not there; however, though we did not 
actually prove it, we were both certain that it could have been done, and we had 
ocular demonstration a little latter. We stopped and listened, and the peculiar 
sighing, murmuring sound of the Helm Wind could be distinctly heard, coming 
from the quarter where we parted with our friends. The sound was not loud,— 
the whole affair being of course on a much smaller scale than it often is ; but 
the characteristics of the Helm Wind were plainly there. The air, which had 
been very cold, was now warm and balmy as a summer evening, and before 
we got 200 yards from the place where we first noticed the calm we met several 
_ very light puffs of air from the South-west. We reached Milburn about 8-45 
_ p.m., the Bar being directly over-head just before we entered the village. It 
“was now dark except for the moon, and as we passed the School, one of a group 
of men sitting on the step struck a match to light his pipe, but hearing our foot- 
Fic. 3. 
1885 
AUG. IQT# 
6 P.M. 
WEATHER CHART, 
