CHAPTER VII. 



Singular effect of Storm Great discharge of Sap from 

 Trees Growth of Cedar of Lebanon of other Trees- 

 Changes in Pond-weeds Soil collected at mouths of 

 Worm-holes Maggots from Sea-weed Disease among 

 Partridges Boy and Wasps Midges Birds on Scotch 

 Sea-lochs Herons in Loch Duich Mortality among /Sea- 

 birds /Skeletons of Weasels in RicksPats. 



the 10th of August, 1852, a tremendous 

 storm of wind from the south-west, accom- 

 panied by rain, swept over the whole of the south 

 coast of England, and in the Isle of Wight en- 

 tirely killed the leaf wherever it was exposed to 

 its fury. It soon however became manifest that 

 the sap was inclined to reassert its creative power, 

 and in due time afterwards, wherever the old leaf 

 had been destroyed, its place was taken by a new 

 one. The foliage of the trees until quite late in 

 the autumn displayed in consequence a very re- 

 markable contrast, that facing the south-west 

 exhibiting the light green leaf of the second 



