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that day the weather continued moderate ; but, in the evening of the 28th, the 

 second storm commenced with great fury. 



Even as far north as Liverpool, a distinct interval was observed between 

 the departure of the first and arrival of the second storm ; a transient calm having 

 occurred there before the second gale commenced on Wednesday afternoon. I 

 may add, as an additional proof of these two storms being quite distinct, that the 

 barometer in all parts of the British islands underwent a temporary rise. On 

 the 26th November it rose, at Adare Abbey, in the morning, 1-1 0th of an inch ; 

 at Fairnborough (near Bagshot), half a tenth, in the forenoon of that day ; at 

 Greenwich Observatory, 1-1 00th part between 9 a. m. and noon. At Sunderland, 

 the barometer, after sinking to 28.50 at 2 p. m. on the 27th, rose to 29.07 at 

 9 A. M. on the 28th, when it recommenced falling. At Kinfaims it rose, on the 

 27th, 32-100, between 9^ a. m. and 8^ p. m. At Kingussie (fifty miles south-west 

 of Inverness), it rose on the 27th, betwixt 4 and 8 p. m., 26-lOOth of an inch. 

 At Inverness, it rose about half an inch, during the night of the 27th and morning 

 of the 28th. 



It is not my purpose to describe the effects of this second storm, by relating 

 the damage occasioned by it, except in so far as these may afford an estimate of its 

 violence, and indicate the places where that violence was greatest. It was the 

 south and south-west parts of England, and the whole of Ireland, which were 

 most severely dealt with. Parts situated to the east were comparatively little 

 affected. At Ljnne Regis, in Devonshire, the storm was so furious, as to blow off 

 not only tiles but immense sheets of lead from the roofs of houses. In Plymouth, 

 London, Bristol, Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, it threw down stalks of chimnies in- 

 numerable, unroofed many houses, and blew down several which were building. 

 At Teignmouth (near Exeter), as at other places in the south-west of England, 

 the gale came on with the wind at south-east. The following is an account of 

 its effects and progress at Teignmouth, written on the spot. At 1 p. m. on the 

 28th, " it blew a perfect gale, the sea running mountains high, — when all of a 

 sudden the wind chopped round to south and south-west, and blew a tremendous 

 hurricane. Its effects upon the sea, at the time tumbling in from the eastward, 

 presented a curious sight, — the top of each wave hurled up into the air in one 

 raging foam. Near the time of high- water, the sea made a breach over East 

 Teignmouth church-yard wall, as well as the Baths, and rushed down the streets. 

 In some parts of the town, the water was nearly two feet deep. Every thing was 

 at a stand-still, — no business doing at the custom-house, bank, or other public 

 places." At Ardglass, on the north-east coast of Ireland, two lighthouses were 

 blown down, one of them a new one scarcely finished, and containing about 400 

 tons of stones. In the south of England, the hail was driven with such violence, 

 as to destroy some millions of panes of glass in the conservatories The light- 

 ning is described as having been, in London and Portsmouth, peculiarly vivid, and 



