302 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



8. Hyde, near Manchester, S. W., in the 15. Kyntire Light, N. W. gale. 



morning ; west in P. M.J strong gale 16. Pladda Light, N. VV. breeze. . 



all day, 17. Greenock, N. W. and N. 



9. Liverpool, S. W., A. M., N. Westerly, 18. Lismore Light, N. W. gale. 



P. M., strong. 19. Dumferline, N. and N. . till 2, P. M. in- 



10. Belfast, N. by W. strong gale. < Teasing to a gale. 



11. Point of Ayre Light, N. W. gale. 20. Edinburgh, N. N. E. strong. 



12. Corsewell Light, N. N. W., storm. 21. Berwick, S. by E. to S. E., strong. 



13. Dublin, W. N. W. 22. Aberdeen, E. all day, strong. 



14. Largs, heavy from N. N. W. from?, A. M. 23. Middle line of the storm on morning of 



till 8, P. M. 17lh. 



Now if the reader will cast his eye on the chart he will 

 perceive that there is a tendency of the wind in all the bor- 

 ders of this great rain to blow inwards to the region where 

 the greatest quantity was falling. At greater distances from 

 this region, at Plymouth and London, for instance, there is 

 much deviation; but as considerable rain fell in these locali- 

 ties, such irregularities are to be expected. Indeed the evi- 

 dence of the inward tendency of the wind towards great 

 rains, is very strong in this storm when we see it overcome 

 all irregular winds around its borders, whilst those at a con- 

 siderable distance from its borders, seem but little affected. 

 It seems probable that this storm moved down towards the 

 south east or S. S. E. ; for it began in Scotland, at the head wa- 

 ters of the Tay, in the north west of Perthshire, before it did at 

 Perth in the south east of that shire, and at all the northern 

 light houses there was rain on the 16th. At this time the 

 weather was fine at Leeds. In the afternoon, however, the 

 observer, Mr. Marshall, says, a middle current commenced 

 from the south east, and afterwards, on the next morning, 

 the wind below changed round to the same direction. 



174. It is worthy of particular remark that on the 16th, 

 when there was a great rain in the middle of Scotland, the 

 wind at all the light houses on the south west of Scotland 

 was from the south west; at some of them a gale, and at Edin- 

 burgh it was south, increasing to a strong wind in P. M., 

 then dying away and afterwards springing up strong next 

 morning N. N. E. at which time it had begun to rain vio- 

 lently in a large tract south west of Edinburgh. 



This circumstance is more remarkable in connection with 

 the fact, that about the very time the wind sprung up strong 



