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tnunder and lightning as horror-struck every person in the parish. Hailstones 

 reported bigger than hen's eggs ; many window sashes beaten in ; the demolition 

 of glass excessive." — Stamford Paper. 



Dec. 16, violent gale of wind, W. S. W. Limerick ; S.E. Weymouth ; S.W. 

 Greenwich. 



1816. July was unusually boisterous and wet. 



Aug. 31. Accompanied by a fall of rain of nearly three inches in two days. 

 A tremendous gale of wind visited Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, and 

 other northern towns. Much damage done to shipping, and many vessels lost 

 at sea. This was the diastrous harvest time previously mentioned. 



1816. Dec. 12th to Jan. 4th, 1817, succession of heavy gales with very 

 htavy rains, inundating the low lands to a very great extent. 



1817. Feb. 27, severe hail and thunderstorms at Glasgow and Dublin. 

 June 27, after ten days of great heat introduced about the solstice by S.E. 



winds. The vicinities of Gloucester and Tewkesbury were visited by a violent 

 hail and thunderstorm, breaking many windows. Many sheep killed and trees 

 blown down. 



July 28, hailstorm in London, lasting seven minutes. Stones as large as 

 hazel nuts. — " Public Ledger." 



Dec. 7th and 8th, hurricane from \V. and N.W. at Falmouth. Felt in 

 the Bay of Biscay the three following days. Twenty vessels destroyed on the 

 French coast between Brest and St. Malo. 



Dec. 15, another violent gale accompanied by most awful thunder and 

 lightning. 



1818. January, a succession of gales. Particularly felt at Edinburgh, 

 where on the 14th and 15th the whole of the minarets on St. John's chapel 

 were carried away. But perhaps the most memorable gale of this century 

 occurred on the 4th and 5th March, 1818, which appeared to be felt over the 

 whole of South Britain. The following particulars from the Hereford Journal 

 of March 11th, may be interesting. "The terrific gale of wind on Wednesday 

 night visited Hereford with furious violence. The upper part of one of the pin- 

 nacles of the Cathedral was blown down ; also the chimnies of the King's Head 

 inn and of Mr. Newton in the High-town. The first fell through the roof of the 

 house carrying with it tiles, &c. A piece of lead about 20 feet by 15 feet, at 

 Colonel Matthews, of Belmont, and weighing a ton, was rolled up and blown 

 against a parapet wall. In all directions throughout the county trees of the 

 largest dimensions were torn up by the roots or stripped of their finest branches, 

 the orchards suffering severely. At Gloucester, part of the Cathedral battle- 

 ments were blown down and fell throiigh the roof near the tomb of Edward II. 

 The Bristol and Birmingham mail with four inside and two outside passengers 

 had a very narrow escape at Hardwicke bridge of being blown into water of 

 great depth, and arrived at Gloucester at 7.30 on Thursday morning instead 

 of midnight. Full particulars are given of the "miraculous escape." The 



