92 STORMS ON THE COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
the barometer gradually rose to 30°249. On the 9th of July, 1866, 
a light N.W. wind was blowing, the day was fine with light 
southerly winds; at 9 p.m. it was overcast, with rain-like clouds; on 
the 10th, barometer 30°282, light westerly winds a.m., light 8. in 
afternoon, and light west at night, cloudy, but clearing towards 
night, but at 6°45 p.m. lightning was observed in a bank of clouds 
low down in §.8.E. On the 11th, barometer 30°210 and ee 
pm 
the wind was blowing 21 miles an hour; it was then raining and 
60 miles an hour; rain fell in torrents and there was a heavy sea 
all day of 12th; it blew hard, 30 to 40 miles an hour, during the 
day, the strongest gust being 56 miles per hour; meantime the 
barometer was falling and stood at 30-036, after 9 p.m. the wind 
very gradually backed to S.8.E., and the velocity began to fall, 
and by 9 a.m. of 13th it was S. only 25 miles an hour ; the baro- 
meter rose a little, 30°073, and the weather cleared with falling 
barometer on 14th. 
is so gradual an t ‘no 
observer will be caught unprepared. I allude to the westerly 
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