MR. HOPKINS'S OBJECTIONS. 477 



Huddersfield. On Sunday evening, the weather glass 

 gave palpable indications of a great change in the atmos- 

 phere, which was also manifest by the rain and sleet that 

 fell. 



Holmfirth. On Sunday evening, a brisk gale blew from 

 the south west, which continued to rise until Monday morn- 

 ing, when it became a complete hurricane. 



Bradford. On Sunday, there was a heavy fall of snow, 

 accompanied by occasional gusts of wind ; and about six, 

 a rapid thaw set in, attended with heavy rain. This was 

 succeeded about two o'clock on Monday morning, by a high 

 wind, which gradually increased in violence till about five 

 o'clock. 



Now in none of these accounts do we find that a north 

 east wind was the herald of the coming storm. The direc- 

 tion of the storm, according to Mr. Espy, was from the 

 south west; and his theory requires, that a wind should 

 meet it, and blow from the north east, as well as from all 

 other points of the compass. The extracts given, show 

 that no such wind blew. We will now see what accounts 

 are given from the same sources of the storm itself, from 

 the commencement to the conclusion. 



Kilrush. For many years this coast has not been visited 

 by so severe a storm as that of Sunday night. From the 

 evidence at an inquest, it appeared that the Undine schooner 

 of Limerick, broke from her moorings in Scattery Roads, 

 about ten o'clock on Sunday night, and was driven on shore 

 at Corhadota. 



Cork. We were visited on Sunday night, by one of the 

 most tremendous gales of wind ever remembered here. It 

 commenced to blow hard at eight o'clock, from W. S. W. ; 

 but at half past eleven, the storm assumed a strength and 

 fury almost irresistible, and continued with unabated vio- 



