GREAT LIVERPOOL STORM. 299 



the month, at Glasgow, with the wind westerly, and yet on 

 the evening of the 6th, the wind changed round to south 

 east, notwithstanding the tendency of the wind to blow 

 from the west after a rainy spell of weather. In Ireland, 

 too, the wind changed round to south east ; and in one in- 

 stance, Newry, to the north east, and blew hard at the 

 beginning of the storm. So says the Drogheda Journal of 

 January 8th. This, probably, should be south east. And 

 yet if there was at that time an uncommon violence of up- 

 ward motion in the air soiith west of Newry, the effect 

 would be a violent north east wind at Newry. 



At Drogheda, the storm arose about 11, P. M., south east, 

 with terrific and unprecedented violence. It seems proba- 

 ble that this is too late an hour for the south east wind to 

 be blowing ; for at this time, according to numerous ac- 

 counts, the wind in that part of Ireland was at that time 

 from the south west. Be this as it may, the very fact of 

 the wind every where changing round from west and north 

 west on the 6th in the morning, to south of east in the day 

 and evening, is a proof that there was a storm of some vio- 

 lence approaching from the west or north west. 



In fact, the Guiana experienced a dreadful hurricane nine 

 miles from Cape Clear, the south west of Ireland, and there 

 are other accounts of ships laboring in a gale, still further 

 west, on that day. 



There are two reasons why the wind from the eastward 

 at the beginning of the gale, should not be as strong as the 

 wind from the westward at the end. First, the west wind 

 is the natural wind of the climate in Great Britain, and this 

 would tend to diminish its force from the east and increase 

 it from the west. In the second place, the storm was 

 greatly increased in violence on reaching the British islands, 

 and, therefore, on passing off to the east, the violence of the 

 west wind would be greatly augmented in pursuing it. 



Finally, even if I had not been so fortunate as to collect 



