‘STORMS ON THE COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 95 
Urana and roma showing = be 7 was then ree 
over a narrow tongue of S.W. w Orange and 
see were still in N.W. ia; but re ay ladtot see the 
ge was visible like a thunderstorm in 8.W. a ak 
sae: the storm and change burst 12 miles pr jen of Bathurst. 
Upon the road to Hill End, where a friend of mine was going, 
lise was pir thunder and grea . listurbanc, but between 
11 a.m. and noon they were out o again in the N.W. 
hot wind. Aad at Hill End, ‘4 storm and chan ange of 
wind broke over the town at 4 p.m. The first storm at Sydne 
that evening was at 6 p.m., da assuming, as is probable, that 
this was the first storm mentioned near Bathurst, — east 
nts a motion o 
All the 9th September the barometer at Sydney was falling fast, 
and the heavy rains inland were evidently ine ne the partial 
vacuum and helping the polar wind. “Map No. 2 shows the 
rLN.W. th 
polar wind that was soning: over Seay rom W. N we for the 
temperature had fallen from 76.5 on 9th to 55.2, and all day of 
the 10th the wind at Sydney eontisired from W.N.W. to W.S.W. 
Map No. 3 is intended to show, first, the state of the weather 
at 9 a.m. of the 10th, and second the observations of the vessels 
off the coast. You willobserve that the S.W. wind had found 
its way to the west of the ntains as v 
and along the coast as far as Bodalla, while at Sydney, Newcastle, 
Musclebrook, wh Scone, the westerly wind was s ns, 
ats in n Queensian dN, “r W. winds, while at Adelaide the polar 
already chicos 4 bt its true direction, S.E. At sea 
ape George at 10 am. of 
met the S.E. gale, ‘hich en furiously all Beat At 
SS. 
2 ial a torrie ia S.W. set in at 10 am., and this 
en preced 
a.m. te 
pton to Sydne y)s es off Smoky Cape 
10°30 a.m., and en Save met a Anca southerly breeze, which 
en a ‘few _* and the wisd Yosked to the west | a 
