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more deeply inundated; all concur to prove encreafing tides, and 

 frequency of ftorms on our coafts. 



These pheenomena faithfully regiftered, extenfively and diftind- 

 ly delineated in natural charaders, independent of every bias from 

 human fyftem or prejudice, free from the uncertainty of cafual 

 records, or the locality of peculiar ftations for obfervation, feem 

 diredly to demonftrate an unufual and encreafing violence in 

 the winds of our climate during the prefent century. That 

 thefe tempefts have chiefly borne upon us from the vi^eflward, 

 is plain from the fame general appearances : for, where local cir- 

 cumftances have not diredly interfered in oppofition, the trees, 

 flirinking before the preflure from the ocean, have univerfally 

 yielded to the weftern blaft. The fands have drifted, and the 

 tides rufhed upon us from the fame quarter, evidently demon- 

 ftrating the more frequent recurrence, and fuperior potency, of 

 the Atlantic ftorms. 



Of the EffeEls of thefe Weftern Tempcjts on the general Temperature 



of the Climate. 



In a paper, honoured with a place in the fecond volume of the 

 tranfadions of the Academy, I recorded the refult of fome ex- 

 periments made in the year 1788, for the purpofe of afcertaining 

 the temperature of the earth in our latitudes. 



From thefe experiments it appears, that the medium tem- 

 perature of the kingdom of Ireland, from its fouthern to its north- 

 ern 



