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west. Yet this renders it more remarkable, that the wind 

 should change round in the evening to the east at Edinburgh, 

 and south of east at various places on the east coast of 

 England, to meet a mighty hurricane of wind and rain from 

 the west and north west, which, at that very time, was in- 

 creasing in violence on the western coast. 



The careful reader will find many irregularities, some of 

 which, no doubt, depend on the dates not being exact, and 

 some accidental, as at Pladda, the barometer is stated to be 

 at its minimum at four, P. M., of 7th, when, no doubt, it 

 ought to be four, A. M. 



But great irregularities would be produced by the renewal 

 of the storm in the north of Scotland, as fully appears by 

 the account at Dunnet Head, where the barometer, which 

 had risen on the 7th, from 27.35 to 27.98, began to fall again 

 about midnight, and fell by three, A. M., of 8th, to 27.65, 

 with a complete hurricane from the west, and it continued 

 a hard gale all the 8th, and most of the 9th, from the north 

 west. 



This renewal of the storm, on the night of the 7th, re- 

 minds us of the storm of the 15th December, 1839, in the 

 United States, which was renewed on the next day. 



It is also particularly worthy of remark, that the barome- 

 ter exhibited a gradual increase of depression on the night 

 of the 6th, all the way from London, along the eastern coast 

 of Great Britain. It was not lower than 29.00, at London ; 

 at Whitby, it fell to 28.40, at eight, A. M., of 7th ; at Dim- 

 net Head, in north east of Scotland, it fell to 27.35, at seven, 

 A. M., of 7th ; and, at the same time, the wind on the 

 whole southern part of the island, was blowing towards 

 the north, where the barometer was very low. 



172. It would be highly interesting to know where this 

 storm originated. It certainly existed, though perhaps 

 with less violence, west of the British islands on the 6th. 



There had been rain or snow every day from the 1st of 



