DECEMBER STORM. 535 



[From William Smith.] 



SIR, I learn that you are anxious to obtain information from various 

 quarters, the direction the wind was in on Monday, the 17th August. I 

 have to state that, at Dumfermline and Kirkaldy, in Fife, at 7 o'clock, 

 A. M., it was direct N. ; but that, up till 2, P. M., it increased to a gale, 

 veering to the N. E., when at Kirkaldy it cleared up and subsided. On 

 Tuesday *the wind was moderate from the same direction, and the day 

 fine. 



Edinburgh, Aug. 16th, 1840. Wind became strong at 4 1-2, P. M., S., 

 10 pounds to foot on Osier's anemometer; between 7 and 8, 13 pounds ; 

 and between 8 and 9, 18 pounds ; it then died away till between 6 and 7, 

 A. M., of 17th, when it sprung up from the N. N. E., increasing to 6 

 pounds a little before 8. It then became moderate, eastwardly, till 2, 

 P. M., when it increased again to 6 or 8 pounds, between 4 and 6, 

 N. N. E. Next morning it was N. by E., from 4 to 5 pounds. It be- 

 gan to rain a few minutes after 10, P. M., of 16th, and by 4 1-2, A. M., 

 of 17th, it had rained, without intermission, one quarter of an inch, and 

 by 8, nearly another quarter, when it stopped till near 10; then it rained 

 hard more than a quarter of an inch, till 1, P. M., when it ceased. 



Berwick, (furnished by the P. M., James Foster.) At 4, A. M., Aug. 

 17th, wind strong, S. by E. ; at 6, strong, S. S. E., and so till 12, M. ; at 

 1, P. M., strong, S. E.,and so till 6, P. M. ; at 7, strong, E. by S. 



C. 



Storm of December I5th and 16th, 1839. 



[See Articles 145 and 146.] 

 [Norfolk Herald, December 23, 1839.] 



1. While a most destructive hurricane, from N. E. to E. was deso- 

 lating the coast to the east of us, on Sunday the 15th, we had a bright 

 sunny day, and a keen N. W. wind, all day. 



2. Journal at Capitol Hill, Washington City. Wind at 3, A. M. of 

 15th, S. W., light. At 9, westerly, moderate. At 3, P. M., westerly, 

 fresh. At 9, P. M., north west, fresh. Barometer lowest, 29.676 at 

 3, P. M., having fallen from 29.98 in 24 hours. On the evening of 

 14th, wind S. E., vith 0.38 inches of rain. On 16th, wind W. N. W., 

 at 9, A. M., a gale. Barometer, 29.82. At 9, P. M., wind fresh, west. 

 Barometer, 29.98. 



The Montreal Herald of 17th, says, During 14th and 15th there was a 

 plentiful fall of snow. 



3. At Cape May, mouth of Delaware, Mr. Miller says, the wind 

 on 15th was N. W., cloudy, with rain, squally. 



4. Harrisburgh, Pa. Wind northerly all day. 



