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to produce a fall of two inches in the barometer, will be 

 about 2,100 feet ; and at that height the thermometer will 

 fall, say seven degrees. Now let us see what was the state 

 of the temperature at some of these places, when the baro- 

 meter fell so low. 



Edinburgh. The rapid thaw that took place the same 

 night (Sunday) was also the cause of a good deal of dam- 

 age to many houses from the sudden influx of the melted 

 snow through the roofs. 



Glasgow. The wind became fearful ; and, as it brought 

 torrents of rain, the snow went rapidly off, falling from the 

 house tops with a noise like thunder. This morning (Mon- 

 day) the snow had nearly disappeared. 



Liverpool. About ten o'clock, Sunday night, the atmos- 

 phere suddenly became unexpectedly mild and warm. In 

 a very few minutes after, alarming gusts of wind began to 

 blow from the south west and west south west. [Extract 

 from the Liverpool Mail.] 



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, on Monday morning, by a high wind, which in- 

 creased in violence till about five o'clock, when the storm 

 appeared to be at its height. 



Lincoln. At ten o'clock on Saturday night, it was a 

 soft air ; at midnight it freshened, and -at three there was 

 a roaring hurricane. 



Here we find, that at the time the barometer fell consid- 

 erably, the temperature, so far from diminishing, as it would 

 do if Mr. Espy's theory were correct, absolutely increased. 

 It was a soft air at Lincoln. The atmosphere became sud- 

 denly mild and warm at Liverpool, when the barometer 

 fell. At Bradford, about six, a rapid thaw set in ; and, in 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow, a thaw accompanied the fall of the 



