BRITISH STORMS. 303 



from the N. N.-E. at Edinburgh, it sprung up violent from 

 N. N. W. at Largs, near Glasgow, in the west of Scotland. 

 At this time, also, the wind at all the light houses in the 

 west of Scotland is given north westerly. 



It is quite certain from all these facts, that the centre of 

 the storm passed down from Scotland into England between 

 Edinburgh and Largs, a town on the west side of Scotland, 

 near Glasgow; and all this time as the storm was passing, 

 the wind at Berwick and North Shields, near Newcastle, 

 on the east coast of England was changing round from south 

 by east to north east and at all the light houses in the south 

 west of Scotland, the wind, which had been south west 

 before, changed round to north west. 



I have an account also in a paper, name not known, that 

 the wind changed round suddenly at Workington, about the 

 centre of the region towards which the wind was blowing 

 at ten, A. M., attended with violent rain. The barometer 

 fell more than an inch, as the reader will perceive, by exam- 

 ining the documents, and stood much lower near the region 

 where the great rain fell than it did at Belfast, Cape Wrath 

 and Aberdeen. 



If there was no well authenticated fact in this whole in- 

 vestigation, but this one, that during the whole morning 

 from 8 A. M. till 1, P. M. the wind at Largs and at Leeds, were 

 blowing at each place, almost exactly towards the other 

 with violence, while a great rain was falling between them, 

 in the very region towards which the wind was blowing, it 

 would, of itself, be worth all the labor which I have expend- 

 ed in the investigation of this storm. Let the reader care- 

 fully examine all the facts for himself. 



