240 History of Astronomy for the Year 1806. 



memory of the conquests of the French, and their taste for 

 the sciences. 



The meteorology of this year has presented some extra- 

 ordinary variations ; there have been neither any very great 

 Jitats nor colds, but plenty of tempests. 



In November 1805 there was an earthquake at Frankfort. 

 On the 20th of January 1806 there was a rumbling noise at 

 Orgon and the mouths of the Rhone, which awakened the 

 inhabitants. On the 1 0th of January there were storms at 

 Bourdeaux, Brest, Rouen, Paris, and Vpres. 



On the 1 1th of January there was a dreadful storm in the 

 neighbourhood of Chartres, Dijon, and Nancy; an extra- 

 ordinary hurricane at BcsaiiQon ; there was a thunder storm 

 at Toulouse, and there was an inundation at Rotterdam. 



On the 20th, in the department of Landes, there were 

 some buildings burnt, and some trees torn up by the roots. 



On the 28lh there was experienced at Poitiers two shocks 

 of an earthquake, accompanied by a prolonged rumbling 

 noise; the thunder fell upon the steeple of Cervo, near Sa- 

 vone, and the steeple of Albisola was thrown down; it fell 

 upon the steeple of Bez;tudun, near Grasse. Thus these 

 stormy clouds occupied more than a hundred leagues in ex- 

 tent ; which confirms the explanation of hurricanes which 

 I gave in the History of Astronomy for 1805. 



On the 13th of March, at Havre, Caen, Antwerp, and 

 Brest, there were dreadful hurricanes ; and several ship- 

 wrecks on the coast of Holland, 



On th» 9th of June there was a dreadful hurricane at Sa- 

 lerno. 



M. Blanc, captain of a corps at Pal ma Nova, in Venetian 

 Frioul, observed a singular water-spout, which I gave an 

 account of in the Journal de I' Empire of the 22d of August, 

 and in the Mmiteur of the 23d. 



On the 2Uth there was a very strong wind at Nantes : at 

 Paris some chimneys were thrown down, trees were torn up 

 by the roots, and all the fruits were shaken off. 



In September there was a dreadful storm at Martinique: 

 300 persons perished at Dominica. 



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