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that this storm moved not exactly towards the east but a 

 little south of east, and if so, it would be similar to some 

 storms, which he had examined in the United States. 



Now if Mr. Hopkins had given this view of Mr. Espy's 

 theory, all the arguments which he uses against the theory 

 on this point would really be in its favor, provided it is true, 

 as Mr. Espy says it is, that the wind set in south of east 

 on the south east coast of England, violent when it was 

 raging north west in the western part of Scotland, and south 

 west in the south western parts of England. For if the 

 storm was of great diameter from the N. N. E. to S. S. W. 

 and moved towards the south of east, the wind ought to 

 set in from some point south of east. And Mr. Espy says 

 in another part of his paper, "As the wind in the first part 

 of the storm is frequently south east, and in the last part of 

 the storm north west ; and as the barometer falls successively 

 from north of west, to south of east, it seems highly proba- 

 ble that these storms of oblong form move towards the south 

 of east." 



Now if the reader will turn to the Shipping and Mercan- 

 tile Gazette of the 8th, 9th, l()th, and llth January, and 

 the Edinburgh Advertiser of the 8th, he will find that the 

 wind became piercingly cold at Edinburgh from the east, 

 on the evening of the sixth, and afterwards changed to an 

 opposite direction ; and that at Bridlington the wind got 

 south east in the night of the sixth, blowing a gale, fell mod- 

 erate about midnight and about three next morning the 

 awful scene commenced, wind west, and at Sunderland they 

 had on the seventh a heavy gale from the S. S. E. to south 

 west. 



Another objection, brought forward against Mr. Espy's 

 theory is that " at Glasgow, though it is in the track of the 

 centre of the storm, according to Mr. Espy, yet the wind 

 was not very high, and the barometer remained extremely 

 low after the most violent part of the storm had in this 



