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any information that the wind sprung up from the eastward 

 to meet the approaching storm, the simple fact that the 

 storm began violently from the westward, in Ireland, six or 

 seven hours sooner than it did on the eastern coast of Great 

 Britain, would be sufficient to prove that there must have 

 been an upmoving current of air between those two places, 

 and that too a very violent one, more especially as there 

 was a tendency inwards from the south west, on the south 

 of Ireland, and also a tendency inwards from the north west 

 on the north of Ireland ; therefore, as it did not blow out at 

 the sides, it must have ascended in the middle, and thus all 

 the process of cloud-forming, &c., by the cold of diminished 

 pressure, would be produced. 



Indeed, it must be so, whenever the wind blows with 

 violence, or even moderation. There must be an upward 

 motion somewhere, unless the wind blows all round the 

 world in that direction, or sweeps off in a circle or out at 

 the sides. 



In concluding these remarks, I beg the reader to examine 

 the documents for himself, and he will find many circum- 

 stances, not noticed here, confirming the doctrine that the 

 wind blows inwards on all sides towards the centre of 

 storms. And especially let him ask himself the reason why, 

 on the next day when the storm had passed off with its centre 

 to the east of Great Britain, the wind on the south of 

 England was blowing hard all day from the south west, 

 and in Scotland from the north west, if the doctrine here 

 taught is not true ? [For original documents see Appendix.] 



Storm of 17th August, 1840. 



173. While I was in England, in the summer of 1840, a 

 storm of some interest occurred, especially as it was desira- 

 ble to know how to compare the phenomena of a summer 



