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APPENDIX 
TO THE 
ESSAY ON SALT RAIN, 
(page 324) 
WITH ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS 
On the succeeding Storms of Wind and Rain. 
BY JOHN DALTON, F. R. S. &e. 
(Read March 21st, 1823.) 
AT the time the Essay above mentioned 
was read to the Society, I had no opportunity 
of consulting records for accounts of similar 
phenomena, Since that time I have looked 
into several works, but have not met with more 
than one or two relations of the same kind. 
These are to be found in the Philos. Transact. 
1704. (See abridgement by Dr. Hutton, 
&e., vol. 5, page 19.) 
The first is entitled “A strate effect of 
the late great storm in Sussex, by John 
Fuller, Esq. in a letter of Dec. 6th, 1703,” 
and is as follows: 
“We live ten miles from the sea in a di- 
rect line, and yet cannot persuade the country 
