CATALOGUE. — METEOROLOGY, ACCOUNTS OF STORMS. 



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Lampadius uber electricitat und w'anne. 8. 



Berl. 1793. 

 Lichtenberw. Erxl. Nat. 



o 

 Thinks, that thunder is less frequent but more violent in 



winter, because the air is less disposed to conduct. 



Robison. Enc. Br. Suppl. Art. Thunder. 

 Tcaldo on thunder. Ac. Par. III. 212. 

 On the clouds in a thunderstorm. Nich. 1. 265. 

 fOn fairy rings. Nich. I. 546. 

 Heller on the returning stroke. Gilb. TI. 223. 

 Aldini's opinion of snow. See .Snow. 

 Priestley on an igneous meteor. Gilb. XI. 

 76. 

 A particular kind of lightning, supposed to be about 20 

 miles high. 



Kirwan on rain. Ir. tr. Nich. 8. V. 120. 

 Erman on atmospherical electricity. Gilb. 

 XV. 385. 502. 



Bilitoro asserts, that lightning generally strikes the S. E. 

 side of a house, sometimes the S. W. but never the north. 



Particular Accounts of Storms. 



Instances of lightning without audible thun- 

 der. Homer. Odyss. xx. 139. Virg. Georg. 

 I. 487. Cicer. de divin. I. xviii. Hor. Od. 

 I. 34. 



Waller. Ph. tr. 1665—6. 1. 222. 



At Oxford. 



Neale. Ph.tr. 1665—6. 1. 247. 

 Ph. tr. 1^70. V. 2084. 



At Stralsund. 

 Kirkby. Ph. tr. 1673.V1II. 6092. 



Effects on grain. 

 Howard. Ph. tr. I676. Xf. 647. 



Effects on the compass, a complete reversion. 



Ph.tr. 1(596. XIX. 311. 



Near Aberdeen, 4 persons killed. 

 Mawgridge. Ph. tr. I697. XIX. 782. 



Effects on a galley. 



Thoresby. Ph. tr. 1699. XXI. 51. Ph.tr. 



1700. XXII. 507. 

 At Leeds. 

 Molyneux. Ph. tr. 1708. XXVI. 36. 



Chamberlayne. Ph. tr. 1712. XXVII. 528. 

 Wasse. Ph.tr. 1725. XXXIII. 36?. 



At Mixbury. Probably an igneous meteor. Mr. Jessop 

 attributes the fairy rings to lightning. 



Bocanbrey on a vortex of fire rolling on the 

 earth. A. P. 1725. H. 5. 



Seems to have been a whirlwind or dry spout. 



Beard. Ph. tr. 1726. XXXIV. 118. - 

 Davies. Ph.tr. 1730. XXXVI. 444. 



In Carmarthenshire. 

 Cookson. Ph. tr. 1735. XXXIX. 75. 



Magnetic effects. 



Clark. Ph. tr. 1739. XLI. 235. 

 Lord Petre. Ph. tr. 1742. XLII. 136. 

 Ph.tr. 1745. XLIII. 447. 

 Miles. Ph. tr. 1748. XLV. 383. 1757. 104. 

 Waddel and Knight. Ph. tr. 1749. XLVI. 

 111. 

 Effects on the compass. 

 Chalmers on a fire ball. Ph. tr. 1750. XLVI. 

 366. 



On board the Montague, in lat. 43" 48', 4 Nov. 1749, a 

 ball of fire as large as a millstone w^ai seen rolling three or 

 four miles along the sea with the wind; it struck the main 

 topmast, rent the whole mainmast, and knocked down 

 6ve men. It has been supposed that this was an electrical 

 cloud. 



Franklin. Ph. tr. 1751.289- 

 Palmer.Ph.tr. 1751. 330. 



At Southraolton. 

 Account of the death of Richmann. A. P. 

 1753. H. 78. Ph.tr. 1754. 7o7. 1755.61. 

 Hatiow Nachricht aus St. Petersburg. 



Kratzcnstcin says, that the stroke which destroyed Hich- 

 mann was not conducted by his apparatus. 

 Hiixham. Ph.tr. 1755. l6. 



At Plymouth. 

 Brander. Ph. tr. 1755.298. 



In Wellclose Square. 



Child. Ph. tr. 1755. 309. 



At Darking. 



Dyer. Ph. tr. 1757. 104. 



In Cornwall. 

 Smeaton. Ph. Ir. 1759' 198. 



At Lestwithitl. 



