194 Meteorological Retrospect 



July 4. At Barcelona. 



7. Porentruy and Schaffhausen. 



°' .-■ I Saanen, canton of Bern. 



\i. Rougemont, and the valleys of Gessenay and Seni- 

 mcnthal in Switzerland. 



Aug. 19. Inspruc.k. 



Sept. 12. Saanen. 



17. Inverness — the fifth since August 1816. 

 21. St. Helena. The oscillation lasted two minutes, and 

 was felt throughout the whole island and neighbouring sea ; also 

 at Saanen, Rothenberg, and environs of Rubllhorn. 



Sept. 22. Angoulenie (Charente-Jnferieure), followed imme- 

 diately by a loud detonation. 



Oct. 17. Pays de Vaud, particularly at Yvonaud and its en- 

 virons. 



Oct. 18. Messina. 



23. Vostizza in the Morea: — The most violent that has 

 occurred this year. It lasted about a minute and a half. The 

 sea was thrown back to a great distance, so that the ships in 

 the roads of Vostizza were left quite dry : it immediately returned 

 with great fury, rose five metres above its ordinary level, and in- 

 undated a considerable space of gfound : soon afterwards it sub- 

 sided into its original position. But the cape which formed the 

 mouth of the river Gaidouroupneiti, after ejecting a very thick 

 smoke, precipitated itself into the sea, and carried along with it 

 the town of Vostizza, the villages of Mourla Dimitropoulu, Lou- 

 niari, Temeni, and part of their inhabitants. For eight succeed- 

 ing days shocks less strong, but very frequent, continued to be 

 felt. 



Nov. 11 and 12. At Geneva, and the two sides of the lake, 

 the shocks were stronger than were ever experienced in this 

 quarter before. 



Drought. 



In the early part of this year the south of Europe was almost 

 desolated by a severe drought, which still continued in a manner 

 truly distressing. In June it dried up the lake of Ouveillan in 

 the arrondissement of Narbonne, and drained the fountains and 

 wells in the greater part of the departments of the mouths of the 

 Rhone, the Var, and the Lower Alps. In July, such was its 

 intensity in the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, that it con- 

 verted mto salt a great part of the waters of the lakes of Saiup 

 Nazairc and Villeneuve. At Marseilles and Montpelier the 

 greatest inconvenieiK-e was also felt for the want of water. 



Great 



