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the most fearful damage and loss both to life and property. 

 The strong outer wall of the house of correction in this city 

 was blown down. 



In the whole of these extracts we find no trace of a north 

 east wind. The greatest violence of the storm seems to 

 have been from the western coast of Ireland, across the 

 Irish sea, Lancashire, and Yorkshire. In Scotland, its vio- 

 lence does not appear to have extended much north of 

 Edinburgh, where it was comparatively moderate. In Lon- 

 don again it was quite moderate, compared with what it 

 was two hundred miles further north. But the course, as 

 well as the force, of this storm is particularly marked by 

 certain facts given in these accounts. From Liverpool, 

 across the island to the German ocean, the spray of the sea 

 was carried so abundantly as to leave a large deposit of sea 

 salt on objects exposed to it. It is stated that at St. Helens, 

 Manchester, Rochdale, and Huddersfield, the incrustation 

 was considerable ; and the following account is given from 

 Alford, in Lincolnshire, a place near to the German ocean : 



Not within the memory of the oldest person has this 

 place (Alford) been visited with such a tremendous gale as 

 set in from the west on Tuesday morning, the 8th inst, 

 (quaere, Monday, the 7th,) about three o'clock, and con- 

 tinued unabated till eleven at night. Every tree and hedge 

 in bleak situations were incrusted over, like a hoar frost, 

 with a powerful alkali, which an eminent chemist pro- 

 nounced to be muriate of soda. Several times something 

 has been observed within seven or eight miles of the Ger- 

 man ocean, when the wind has blown from the east, and it 

 was supposed the wind absorbed it from the vapors of the 

 sea ; but the wind now having blown from the west, if such 

 was the case, it must have been conveyed completely across 

 the island from the Irish sea. It appeared that the greater 



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