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blew from SE. or SSE. ; it afterwards veered to SW., and on the 

 cessation of the storm it was blowinfr from NW. The veering to 

 SW. took place in Cornwall during the forenoon of the 27th ; it 

 took place in Dublin in the evening of that day. 



Heavy gu^nts cime from a point due west, or rather to the north 

 of west, shortly before the cessation of the storm. These were 

 felt in Cornwall in the afternoon of the 2Tth ; they did not com- 

 mence at Pladda (o£P the coast of Ayrshire) till the night of the 

 2Sth November. 



From these and other similar data, it was concluded, that the 

 storm moved progressively in a N.NE. direction, at the rate of 

 ten or eleven miles an hour. 



The progress of this storm from southern latitudes was next de- 

 scribed, by reference to various places both on sea and land, as far 

 south as Gibraltar, at all of which it had been severely felt. On 

 the 22d and 23d, a storm from the S. was experienced at the 

 month of the Garonne. OflF the NW. coast of Portugal, three ves- 

 sels were dismasted by a hurt icane on the 22d ; at Gibraltar, there 

 was a storm on the 21st November. It was most probably one 

 and the same storm which passed over ail these places, beginning 

 at Gibraltar on the 21st, and reaching the British islands on the 

 26th November ; — seeing it would arrive there at the very time 

 that the first storm begun in England, and had the same direction 

 and rate of movement. 



Some circumstances were stated, shewing that this storm had 

 probably a rotatory as well as a progressive motion. These were, 

 ( 1.) the great velocity of the wind in the storm, compared with the 

 actual motion of the storm ; (2.) the veering of the wind in the 

 storm from SE. to N W. ; (3.) the greater violence of the gusts 

 from S. and SW., — the progressive and rotatory motions then 

 coincided. 



II. The second storm begun on the SW. coast of Ireland abont 

 2 A. M. on the 28th ; at Cork, about 3 or 4 a. m. ; Cornwall, about 

 5 A.M.; Plymouth, about 9 a. m. ; and Fairnborough (near Bag- 

 shot), about 10 a.m. 



At all these places tltere was, during the previous night, a calm, 

 or liglit airs from the westward. 



This storm reached Dublin about 1 P. M. on the 28th ; Glasgow, 

 about 3 r. M ; and Kirkaldy, between 4 and 6 p.m. It travelled 

 northward, therefore, at the rate of about twenty miles an hour. 



