420 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



Page 64. The green slopes of the hills were converted 

 into naked precipices. 



At Gordon Castle, mouth of the Spey, north of the storm, 

 min. barom. 29.20. 



Page 178. The western boundary of the fall of rain 

 seems to have been about the line of the river Calder, (a 

 little south east from Loch Ness,) which enters the Spey 

 from the left bank. The deluge was tremendous, accom- 

 panied by a violent north east wind arid frequent flashes 

 of lightning without thunder. The barometer sank very 

 little, but this was attributed to the direction of the wind. 



Page 38. A little north east from the river Calder, high 

 up on the Findhorn, the landlord of the inn told me that 

 there were showers on Sunday, the 2d, and during the 

 night ; but that the serious rain did not come on till Mon- 

 day morning, about eight o'clock, when the water fell from 

 the heavens more tremendously than he had ever seen it 

 fall before. Here, as elsewhere, it was accompanied by a 

 violent north east wind, and it continued till about four 

 o'clock on Tuesday evening. 



Page 239. In the afternoon of the 1st, Mr. Skinner, who 

 lives at Drummin, immediately above the junction of the 

 Livat with the Spey, (near the centre of the storm,) ob- 

 served an unusually dark cloud on the top of Cromdale hill. 

 It was so remarkable in its appearance that it excited uni- 

 versal notice. The barometer stood with him on that day 

 at 30, but fell gradually till the 3d, when it stood at 28.2. 



Page 354. (Near the head of the Dee southern part of 

 the storm). The rain on the northern mountains was infinite- 

 ly more tremendous than that which fell in the valley ; and 

 whilst the tributaries from that quarter were swollen to an 

 unparalleled height, those from the south, in the Brsemar 

 district, were not more raised than they are every year by 

 spring and autumn floods. Instances of outbursts of sub- 

 terranean water were frequent in the northern mountains. 

 The red granite hill of the Muckle Glashault, nine miles to 



