418 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



Helensburgh, four miles north of Greenock. From Dr. Gibbs's Register. 



Aug. 2, Showery, j> Wind not stated in the register at this 



3, Heavy rain. Vtime, but probably the same as at 



4, Dark and cloudy, but dry. ) Greenock. 



Liverpool. Extracted from the Liverpool letter. Registered probably about 2, P. M. 

 Aug. 2, N. W. 



3, S. W. 



4, N. During last night, (evening of 3d August,) we had a very 



heavy gale from N. N. W. 



Passages Extracted from " An Account of the Great Floods of August, 1829, in 

 | the Province of Moray, and adjoining Districts, by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, 

 Bart. 



Page 1. The heat in the Province of Moray, during the 

 months of May, June and July, 1829, was unusually great, 

 and in the earlier part of that period the drought was so 

 excessive as to kill many of the recently planted shrubs and 

 trees. 



Page 3. The deluge of rain that produced the flood of 

 the 3d and 4th of August, fell chiefly on the Monadhleadh 

 mountains, rising between the south eastern part of Loch 

 Ness, and Kingussie in Badenoch, and on that part of the 

 Grampian range forming the somewhat independent group 

 of the Cairngorums. 



Page 4. At Kirkwall, in Orkney, there was a violent 

 storm of wind and rain on Monday, the 3d of August. A 

 similar deluge was experienced at Wick, and much damage 

 was done in the parishes of Watten, Halkirk and Latham. 

 In Sutherland and Ross-shire, both lying to the westward 

 of the line I have described, as well as the country to the 

 north of Loch Ness, little or no injury was sustained. But 

 the river Foyers, deriving its source from the very moun- 

 tains that first received the column of drifted vapor, was so 

 highly flooded as to destroy Whitebridge. 



The rivers Nairne, Findhorn and Lossie, were all more 

 or less affected by the flood, exactly in proportion as they 



