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" It appears that the thunder storm commenced on Wed- 

 nesday night in Tipperary, Clare, Limerick, and Waterford, 

 reaching its greatest violence on Thursday morning at about 

 six. It was on Thursday evening that it was most severe in 

 Carlow and Queen's County, from nine till twelve p.m., 

 having, however, been felt in the morning of the same day. 

 On Thursday evening it began in Dublin ; but the thunder 

 was loudest at half-past three a.m. on Friday morning. On 

 Friday morning, at ten o'clock, a.m., it raged in the county 

 Mayo. 



" In Windsor forest and the neighbouring country it was 

 a more furious tempest, and took place on the evening of 

 Thursday the 27th, as in the county Carlow. 



" It was reported to me, that there were some remark- 

 able phenomena of the tide in Dublin Bay during the storm ; 

 and I accordingly inquired from a variety of persons on the 

 quays and elsewhere, and they concurred in stating, (hat 

 about half-past three the tide, which was then flowing and 

 approaching to high water, suddenly retired in half ah hour 

 to low water mark, and that it rapidly returned and rose 

 two feet higher than high water mark, and so quickly that 

 boats were knocked violently against each other. The coal- 

 porters, and dockyard keepers, and various sailors both in 

 the river and Kingstown, agreed in this statement. 



" Further, in the River Foyle, in the North of Ireland, 

 there is an embankment in the course of being formed by 

 Thomas Hutton, Esq., and he slates that the tide on Thurs- 

 day night, or Friday morning, retired so suddenly, that con- 

 siderable damage was done to his embankment. 



*' The concurrence of these phenomena with the storm is 

 a point of some interest; and I write these few lines to in- 

 vite inquiry, and to ascertain, if possible, whether this extra- 

 ordinary tide-wave was generally observed, and on what day 

 and hour, and whether it coincided or not with the storm. 



