422 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



wards the Moray hills, on the north east side of the Moray 

 floods ; and at Greenock, north west, and at Liverpool 

 south west, and at Leith west, in the same storm ; and in 

 Teneriffe the wind, which had been south west, changed 

 round suddenly at the beginning of the storm, on the east 

 side of the island, and blew a gale from the east, and on 

 the north it changed round suddenly, and blew a gale from 

 the north ; whilst in the interior part of the island, at La- 

 guna, the wind continued yet for many hours longer from 

 the south west. 



4th. The clouds were seen to meet from three directions ; 

 at Hollidaysburg, in three directions ; at Catskill, in two di- 

 rections ; in New Hampshire, " at the close of a rainy day, 

 the clouds seemed all to come together over the White 

 Mountains, and at midnight to discharge their clouds at 

 once in a terrible burst of rain." 



At Teneriffe, tl the clouds came rapidly together from 

 every part of the horizon." 



5th. The clouds either touched the ground, or covered the 

 mountains. 



6th. The barometer fell, near the centre of the Moray 

 storm, 1.8 inches, whilst both on the north east arid north 

 west, and south west side, it fell very little ; and in Tene- 

 riffe. in the interior of the island, the barometer sank from 

 28.532 to 27.870, in a few hours ; when, at the same time, the 

 wind on the east was blowing a most violent gale from the 

 east ; and on the north a most violent gale from the north. 



7th. All these storms took place at a time of year when 

 the dew point may be high ; for even in November the dew 

 point may be high in Teneriffe. 



8th. These storms appear to have been stationary over a 

 very limited extent of territory, and to have continued 

 longer in proportion as they were larger. 



When such astonishing phenomena as these are presented 

 to our minds for the first time, and satisfactorily proved to 



