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winds only, while, as already stated, over England, the wind was 

 passing in a tempest, blowing from all points of the compass around 

 a central lull. 



The next storm that occurred was similar in its features, though 

 it came from a rather different direction. 



It raged on the 1st and 2nd of November, and its character was in 

 all respects like that just described, now usually called the "Charter 

 Storm/' 



Coming more from the westward, it passed across the north of 

 Ireland, the Isle of Man, north of England, and then across the 

 North Sea towards Denmark. Further than that distance facts have 

 not yet been gathered, but in the course of time they will be obtained 

 and collated. 



The general effect of these storms was felt unequally in our islands, 

 and much less inland than on the coasts. 



Lord Wrottesley has shown by observations made at his obser- 

 vatory in Staffordshire, that the wind is diminished or checked by 

 its passage over land ; and, looking to the mountain ranges of Wales 

 and Scotland, rising 2000, 3000, or 4000 feet above the level of the 

 ocean, we see they must have great power to alter the direction and 

 probably the velocity of wind, independently of alterations caused 

 by changes of temperature. The very remarkable similarities of this 

 storm of the 1st and 2nd of November, that of the 25th and 26th of 

 October, the series of storms investigated -by Dr. Lloyd during ten 

 years, and the observations of Mr. William Stevenson in Berwick- 

 shire, require special notice on this occasion. There is no discre- 

 pancy between the results of the ten years' investigations published 

 by Dr. Lloyd in the Transactions of the Irish Academy, the three 

 years' inquiry published by Mr. William Stevenson, and all the 

 investigations which have been brought together during the last four 

 years. They all tell the same story. Dr. Lloyd only found in ten 

 years one instance of even a partial storm which differed, namely, 

 one that came from the north in the first instance. 



Storms from the south-west are followed by sudden and dangerous 

 storms from the north or east, and these are the storms that do 

 most damage on our coasts. Upon tracing the facts, it is proved 

 that the storms which come from the west and south come on gra- 



