20 A Twenty-second Memoir on the Law of Storms, [No. 1. 



No, 6. 

 Was there any lightning that you observed, and at what periods of the 



hurricane ? 



E. Not a flash or clap of thunder but rain in torrents. 



J. R. B. I looked out repeatedly during the gales and saw no 

 lightning. There was a distant rumbling of thunder about 4 a. m. 

 of the 13th. 



M. No. I was on the look out the whole time. 



No. 7. 



Was there any kind of remarkable light like that of phosphorus, or an 



oiled paper screen ? 



E. There were two persons in the station, on a hill in the neigh- 

 bourhood, who thought they saw phosphoric lights glancing or play- 

 ing about the ground. 



B. It was not easy to look out on account of the dirt from the 

 broken verandahs and rubbish that was driving about, but I saw no 

 light except that of the moon which though invisible itself, cast a 

 faint light on the driving clouds . 



M. Tes : The sky had a decidedly luminous appearance much 

 more than could be expected to arise from the moon at its last 

 quarter. 



No. 8. 

 Did you see or hear of any one who saw flashes or streams of light- 

 ning proceeding upwards from the earth to the clouds? 



E. See reply to No. 7. 



J, R. B. The Eev. Mr. Johannes and his son-in-law Mr. [Roberts 

 of the Abkarry Department assert that they saw fire streaming 

 along the surface of a closely neighbouring hill on two or three 

 occasions during the night. 



B. There was a large Bolam boat burnt during the storm close 

 to Mr. Johannes' house. 



M. I saw nothing of the burning of boats or houses. 



R. I. Nothing of this kind that I saw ; the night was strangely 

 bright. I could perceive almost every object outside : perhaps the 

 most extraordinary feature in this storm was, that we had neither 

 thunder nor lightning. 



