have for keeping away from the waterside 

 under such conditions of the atmosphere. 

 That, in short, which one correspondent 

 refers to as "the alarm that it causes to 

 hypersensitive men and women " tends to 

 keep folk away from exposure on the 

 water or beneath the trees that often 

 fringe the bank. However conducive 

 other extremes of the British climate 

 may be to discomfort, or even to ill- 

 health, lightning is the only condition 

 which often entails bodily danger. As a 

 further difficulty, thunderstorms are so 

 uncommon in some districts, like Orkney 

 (A. M. S. G.), during the fishing season 

 that local sportsmen have no opportunity 

 of learning their effect from experience. 

 Depressing With all conditions of weather, scienti- 

 effectof fically considered in relation to the 



thunder in 



the air. present inquiry, it is necessary to draw 

 a distinction between those which merely 

 threaten and those which are accomplished 

 fact. Even on ourselves, " thunder in the 

 air" has an effect of depression that can 

 be likened only to that caused by east 



