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Huron, while on the one hand over the Eastern 

 States and Canada it fell below the average, and 

 on the other also lielow the average over Assini- 

 boia. From this distribution of pressure it inevit- 

 ably resulted that Canada and the Eastern States 

 were swept by cold, dry, north-westerly winds of 

 unusual strength and prevalence, while Assiniboia 

 enjoyed southerly breezes from, as the isobarics 

 and winds show, the low latitudes of the Gulf of 

 Mexico. 



It is plain that the character of the weather of 

 any particular day or season is wholly determined 

 by the way in which areas of high and of low 

 atmospheric pressure are distributed over the region 

 during that day or season. Further, the weather 

 of the coming season could certainly be predicted 

 for say the British Islands, if only the general path 

 was known which the centres of the Atlantic 

 cyclones will take in their easterly course over 

 Europe ; for if the paths of the winter storms be 

 to the north of Great Britain the winter will be 

 an open one, but if to the south a severe winter 

 is the certain result. Towards the solution of this 

 highly practical problem we look to seamen to put 

 us in possession of a fuller and, above all, an 

 earlier knowledge of the fluctuations of the sur- 

 face temperature of the Atlantic, and to hig^h- 

 level observatories for the data required in obtain- 

 ing a clearer insight into the history and theory 

 of storms. 



See METEOROLOOT, SIGNALLING, HAILSTORM, ANEMO- 

 METER, WIND, kc. ; Redfield, On the Law of Stormt 

 (1840); Espy, The Philosophy of Stormt (1841) ; Ped- 

 dington, Application of the Law of Storms to Navigation 

 (1844) ; Sir W. Keid, Progress of the Development of the 

 Law of Storm* ( 1849 ) ; Dove, On the Law of Storms ( Eng. 

 trans. 1862 ) ; Meldrum, Law of Storms and Navigation 

 (1873); Ferret, Storms, Tornados, and Waterspouts 

 (1878); LoomN, Contributions to Meteorology ( 3 parts, 

 1885-89) ; H. G. Hazen, The Tornado ( New York, 1890); 

 and the daily weather charts and relative memoirs 

 published in Great Britain, United States, Canada, 

 Australia, France, Holland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, 

 Sweden, Kussia, India, China, Japan, &C. 



Slornowsi>. a seaport and important fishery- 

 station in Lewis, the chief town of the Outer 

 Hebrides, near the head of a spacious sea-loch, 59 

 miles N. by \V. of Portree in Skye and 180 of 

 Oban. The principal feature is Stornoway Castle, 

 completed in 1870 by Sir James Matheson ( 1796- 

 1878), at a cost, with the grounds, of 89,000. 

 Pop. (1841) 1354; (1891)3387. 



Storthing (from star, 'great,' and thing, 

 'court'), the legislative assembly of Norway. See 

 Vol. VII. p. 532. 



Story, JOSEPH, an American jurist, was born 

 at Marbleliead, Massachusetts, September 18, 1779, 

 graduated at Harvard in 1798, and was admitted 

 to the bar in 1801. He was elected to the state 

 legislature in 1805, and there became a leader of 

 the Republican (Democratic) party. In 1808 he 

 was returned to congress, and in 1811 he was 

 appointed by Madison associate justice of the 

 Supreme Court of the United States, a place he 

 filled with great credit for thirty-four years. In 

 1829 he l>ecame law professor at Harvard, and 

 quickly raised the school to fame and prosperity. 

 Of his many works the most valuable are his 

 Commentaries on the Constitution of the United 

 Stale* (IS33), on The Conflict of Laws (1834), and 

 on Equity jurisprudence (1835-36), which have 

 passed through many editions. His legal writings 

 and decisions are among those oftenest quoted in 

 the higher courts of law. He died September 10, 

 1845. See the Life by his son (1851), who also 

 prepared an enlarged edition of his Miscellaneous 

 Writings (1851). The son, WILLIAM WETMORE 

 STORY, was born at Salem 12th February 1819, 



graduated at Harvard in 1838, studied law under 

 his father, and was admitted to the bar. He even 

 entered with spirit on his profession ; but soon 

 (1848) the bias towards poetry and art, which had 

 been checked in the father after one luckless 

 venture, drew him to Italy and made him a 

 sculptor. His productions in this field are of high 

 excellence; and his writings include Poew(1847- 

 56-86), Roba di Roma ( 1862), the Tragedy of Nero 

 (1875), Castle St Angela (1877), He and She (1883), 

 Fiammetta (1885), Excursions in Art and Letters 

 (1891), A Poet's Portfolio (1894), &c. Mr Story 

 received honorary doctorates from both Oxford 

 and Bologna, and was decorated by the French and 

 Italian governments. Died October 7, 1895. 



Stothard, THOMAS, designer and painter, was 

 the son of a London innkeeper, who kept the 

 Black Horse in Long Acre, and was born there, 

 17th August 1755. He received a respectable edu- 

 cation in different boarding-schools, and on his 

 father's death, having shown a predilection for the 

 use of the pencil, was bound apprentice to a pattern- 

 drawer in the city, but was released from his 

 engagement before the term of expiry, and betook 

 himself to more artistic work. His first notable 

 effort was a series of designs for the Town and 

 Country Magazine, which was followed by his 

 imaginative compositions for Bell's British Poets 

 and the Novelist's Magazine. The popularity of 

 these was so great that for many years his services 

 were constantly in request by the leading pub- 

 lishers in London. His earliest pictures exhibited 

 at the Royal Academy were ' The Holy Family ' 

 and 'Ajax" defending the Body of Patroclus.' In 

 1791 he was chosen an associate, in 1794 a member, 

 and in 1813 librarian of the Academy. He died 

 27th April 1834. Stothard was a most graceful 

 and facile illustrator. Not less than 3000 of his 

 designs have been engraved, including those to 

 Boydell's Shakespeare, The Pilgrim's Progress, 

 Robinson Crusoe, and Rogers' Italy and Poems. 

 His paintings, although skilfully ' composed ' and 

 finely coloured, are destitute of the originality and 

 force that come from a study of nature. Perhaps 

 the best known is his 'Canterbury Pilgrims,' en- 

 graved in 1817. See the Life (1851) by Mrs Bray 

 (q. v. ), the widow of his son, CHARLES ALFRED 

 STOTHARD ( 1786-1821 ), who acquired a great repu- 

 tation as an antiquarian draftsman. 



StOUghton, JOHN, a learned English divine, 

 was born in Norwich, 18th November 1807, and 

 educated at Highbury College, Islington, and Uni- 

 versity College, London. Appointed Congregation- 

 alist minister at Windsor in 1832, he removed to 

 Kensington in 1843, and here laboured till his re- 

 tirement in 1875, when the congregation presented 

 him with 3000. From 1872 till 1884 he acted as 

 professor of Historical Theology and Homiletics in 

 New College, St John's Wood. He was Congrega- 

 tional lecturer in 1855, chairman of the Congrega- 

 tional Union in 1856, received the D.D. degree 

 from Edinburgh in 1869, took part in the Evan- 

 gelical Alliance Conferences at New York (1873) 

 and Basel ( 1879 ). He died 24th October 1897. See 

 Life by his daughter ( 1899). 



He edited for many years The Evangelical Magazine, 

 and has written many books marked by profound learn- 

 ing, the most important Church and State Two Hun- 

 dred Years Ago ( 1862 ) ; Ecclesiastical History of England 

 ( 5 vols. 1867-74 ), supplemented by two volumes on the 

 Reign of Anne and the Georges (1878), and two on 

 the period of 1800-50 ( 1884 ) ; Homes and Haunts of 

 Luther ( 1875) ; Footsteps of the Italian Reformers (1881 ) ; 

 Spanish Reformers ( 1883 ) ; studies of Wilherforce, Penn, 

 Howard ; and Recollections of a Long Life ( 1894). 



Slour. a river 47 miles long, flowing eastward 

 along the Suffolk and Essex boundary to the sea at 

 Harwich. 



