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traversed in every direction by streaming lightning of the most 

 vivid description. The thunder was incessant, but very di- 

 stant, and no rain fell. Mr. Weld heard of seven persons being 

 killed, and about as many more struck, but not killed, besides 

 several valuable cows and horses which were killed. 



Thunder was heard, but lightning was not seen, on July 4 

 at North Shields; on the 9th at Holkham; on the 15th at 

 Guernsey; on the 16th at St. John's Wood, Linslade, Stone 

 and Wakefield; on the 17th at Greenwich, Durham and 

 North Shields; on the 18th at Wakefield ; on the 19th at 

 Stone; and on the 23rd at Guernsey. On August 6 at Ox- 

 ford, Aylesbury, Holkham and North Shields; on the 12th 

 at Uckfield, Linslade, Holkham, Hawarden and Liverpool; 

 on the 13th at Jersey; on the 19th at Norwich; on the 21st 

 at Dunino ; on the 23rd at Cardington ; on the 24th at Exeter, 

 Oxford, Hartwell Rectory and Stone; and on the 28th at 

 Nottingham. On September 3 and 24 at Aylesbury ; on the 

 26th at Durham and North Shields; and on the 27th at St. 

 John's Wood. 



Lightning was seen, but thunder was not heard, on July 8 

 at Uckfield ; on the 15th at Uckfield, Hartwell Rectory, 

 Stone and Stony hurst; on the 16th at Leicester, Nottingham 

 and Manchester; on the 17th at St. John's Wood, Oxford, 

 Hartwell Rectory and Liverpool ; on the 19th at Stone ; and 

 on the 29th at Manchester. On August 5 at Cardington and 

 Stone; on the 6th at High field House; on the 8th at Stony- 

 hurst; on the 9th at Cardington; on the 16th at North 

 Shields ; on the 22nd at Norwich and North Shields. On 

 September 23 at Uckfield, Greenwich, Linslade and Car- 

 dington ; on the 24th at Greenwich, Oxford and Stone ; on 

 the 29th at Hartwell Rectory; and on the 30th at Helston, 

 Uckfield, Greenwich, St. John's Wood, Oxford, Hartwell 

 Rectory and Linslade. 



Aurora Boreales were seen at Nottingham on July 5 ; on 

 July 12 at Norwich. On August 6 at Stone; on the 21st at 

 Stone and Dunino, On September 6 and 10 at Nottingham ; 

 on the 13th at Nottingham and Hawarden; on the 14th at 

 Stone ; and on the 28th at Hartwell House, Hartwell Rec- 

 tory and Stone. 



Hail fell on July 12 at Hawarden ; on the 20th at Oxford 

 and Liverpool; and at Dunino on the 21st and 22nd. On 

 September 29 at Guernsey; and on the 30th at Jersey. 



S?ww fell on Ben Lomond on August 23. 



Frost. — The first frost was seen on August 22 at Uckfield, 

 when the wheat and barley sheaves were frozen into a stiff 

 mat; and Mr. Prince saw ice as thick as a wafer upon his 



