230 Natural Phenomena observed in 1833. 



nexion of phenomena would have been more closely traced : as 

 it is not difficult to see, in some few of the examples thus 

 brought together, a contemporaneousness which is very remark- 

 able. A portion of them have been embodied in the papers 

 before mentioned; but they are here necessarily reincorpo- 

 rated. If accurate observations were made, and all occurrences 

 that fall in the way of observers recorded, extensive data might 

 be so established for the developement of a general theory, such 

 as that I have endeavoured to maintain in previous publica- 

 tions. In the calendars for the last four years there are so many 

 extraordinary coincidences, that I am fully impressed that my 

 hypothesis is a correct one; and it is impossible to consider 

 the strange vicissitudes of the seasons during the present year, 

 compared with years of similar character long ago, and not 

 be convinced that, as to the sun, and moon, and stars, so there 

 is to the earth, a cycle of recurring phenomena, all pointing 

 to a general law, regulating the internal movements of the 

 terrestrial sphere, and its circumambient atmosphere. 

 Stanley Green, April 11. 1837. 



1833. January 4, 5, 6. Earthquakes in South Wales, Ire- 

 land, and England. — 13. Earthquake in Sweden. — 18. 

 Arica destroyed by an earthquake. (Sea rose 30 ft.) 



N.B. The weather, during this and the preceding and suc- 

 ceeding months, particularly mild in the arctic regions. {Teste 

 Capt. Ross.) There was a violent tornado at Suspendersville, 

 in Georgia, uprooting pines, oaks, &c. 



February 2. Cholera and drought at Madras. — 8. Earth- 

 quakes at St. Kitts, Nevis, &c, continued till April. — 19. 

 Earthquake in lat. 22° N. 79° w. long. Hurricane in lat. 

 22° s. 79° e. long. — 20. Italian poplars at Morlieux, oozing 

 black gum, and dying, as during the cholera in ] 832. (Annates 

 dc la Soc. d' Horticulture.) 



March 7- Ice floatings in the Atlantic. Tide, this day, 

 ebbed and flowed at Cape La Hogue and Cherbourg, so as to 

 leave the wrecked ships of the great battle of 1692 for 

 the first time dry. — 27. Earthquakes in the West Indies 

 generally. — 31. Earthquake at Horsham, Sussex. 



N.B. JLociuU this month in France. Insects, unknown 

 there before, destroying the corn in Spain. 



April 1. Drought in Buenos Ayres, continued from January : 

 2,000,000 head of cattle lost from the effects of it. Drought 

 at Manilla. The water in the river there suddenly decreased, 



* Whenever no locality is assigned, it is to be understood that the 

 writer's residence in Dorsetshire is intended. 



