318 H. C. RUSSELL. 
ings was battered by the hail as if some one had pounded it with 
a hammer all over. The storm track was only a mile to a mile 
and a-half wide, at least the hail part. Between 7 and 8 p.m. as 
the storm came up, there seemed to be a white bow in the sky, 
like a white rainbow stretching from north to south. I have seen 
heavy storms before but I never wish to see another like this, the 
shearers were completely terrified and all say that they have never 
experienced a storm like it, in fact it beggars description and can 
hardly be realized. It was an experience that we shall remember 
as long as we live.” 
North of Narrabri, and especially between Narrabri and Avon- 
dale, the storms were very severe. Midway between these places 
and at Terry-hi-hi and Berrigal Creek the wind worked great 
destruction in the forest, how violent it was may be gathered from 
the fact that great trees twelve feet in circumference at three 
feet from the ground, were snapped off short ten feet above the 
ground, or entirely stripped of their limbs. 
NOTES ON THE RECENT CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN 
GERMANY. 
By B. ScowarzBacu, M.D. Wiirzburg, L.F.P.& 8. Glas. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. Wales, December 7, 1892.] 
In speaking of the recent Cholera Epidemic in Germany, the out- 
break in the city of Hamburg can only be considered, because the 
appearance of the disease in other parts of the country was entirely 
of a sporadic nature, with no sign of being an epidemic. The 
suddeness and fierceness of the outbreak in Hamburg, came like 
a terrible surprise, not only to the inhabitants of that unfortunate 
city, but to the civilised world at large. The consternation, 
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