Volcanic Hruptions and Hurricanes. — 287 
1847.—Tobago, 11th OctoBer, p.M. The severest and 
most desolating hurricane that has occurred here since 1780. 
A severe earthquake preceded the first outbreak. 
1848, Aucust.—Antigua hurricane. At midnight, wind 
raged furiously ; thunder and lightning were incessant, with 
floods of rain. At this time a severe shock of an earthquake 
was felt, attended by very heavy gusts. By 1} a.m. the 
mercury had fallen four-tenths, and the storm was dreadful. 
At 2 a.m. it abated.—Annual Reg., 1848. 
1848, 12th OcToBER.—LHarthquake at Melbourne. 
16th, 19th Octoprr.—Earthquakes at New Zealand. 
Wellington.—The two-topsail schooner Sarah Ann trom 
Otago driven back from off the Heads on the 18th October 
by a N.E. gale. 
14th Octoper.—Taranaki. Tremendous 8.E. gale. 
’ In night a perfect hurricane. About 2 4M. of 15th, house 
shaken by an earthquake. ‘Throughout the 15th wind blew 
without abatement ; the sea boiled like a pot, and showers 
of foam blew across our premises. Fences, out-houses, &c., 
laid prostrate. On 19th, weather and sea calm.—Letter 
from the Rev. W. Woon. 
18th -OcTroBER.—Awckland. A raw wet blustering 
morning, increasing to a perfect hurricane at W.N.W. 
Moderate at daylight on the 19th. 
The Harriet Liethart, from Auckland, wrecked at the 
mouth of the Wanganui River on the night of the 18th by 
a heavy south-easter. Captain Gilmore states that during 
October the weather in Bass’s Straits was exceedingly 
tempestuous, the wind blowing a complete hurricane, with 
heavy rain. 
A valuable record of the physical circumstances attending 
the series of earthquakes experienced at Wellington from 
16th October to 18th November, 1848, from the journal of 
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