CHAPTER VII. 
Singular effect of Storm—Great discharge of Sap from 
Trees—Growth of Cedar of Lebanon—of other Trees— 
Changes in Pond-weeds—Sotl collected at mouths of 
Worm-holes—Maggots from Sea-weed—Disease among 
Partridges—Boy and Wasps—Midges—Birds on Scotch 
Sea-lochs—Herons in Loch Duich—Mortality among Sea- 
birds— Skeletons of Weasels in Ricks--Rats. 
N the 10th of August, 1852, a tremendous 
storm of wind from the south-west, accom- 
panied by rain, swept over the whole of the south 
coast of England, and in the Isle of Wight en- 
tirely killed the leaf wherever it was exposed to 
its fury. It soon however became manifest that 
the sap was inclined to reassert its creative power, 
and in due time afterwards, wherever the old leaf 
had been destroyed, its place was taken by a new 
one. The foliage of the trees until quite late in 
the autumn displayed in consequence a very re- 
markable contrast, that facing the south-west 
exhibiting the light green leaf of the second 
