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spray up for one hundred feet. It was a grand sight and the largest 

 water-spout the observer had seen for a number of years. It was 

 fully three hundred feet in length but not a great width, the 

 rough sketches {Plate 6) will give some idea of it. It lasted half 

 an hour. 



The cloud was remarkably massive, dark and heavy below and 

 like great white boulders above, it extended from north-east to 

 south-east, and would be at least ten miles long ; the water-spouts 

 came down in the centre of it when about four miles off the land; 

 the estimated length of this great water-spout was four hundred 

 feet, and was nearly parallel throughout, (Fig. 1), forty to fifty 

 feet in diameter above and about forty feet below. In Fig. 2 

 the top and base had enlarged and the water sprays about the 

 base seemed to rise one hundred feet, indicating intense velocity 

 of rotation, while a great roaring noise could be heard. In Fig. 3 

 it was much wider at the cloud; lower down it still maintained a 

 width of forty feet, which could be seen through the spray down 

 to the sea, while round it the water still sprayed, but not so much 

 or so high. (Fig. 4) The tubular form disappeared for the 

 moment and the outline was that of a long and narrow cone 

 extending rather more than half way to the sea; the continuance 

 of the vortex was shewn by the water spraying about twenty feet. 

 (Fig. 5) Once more the water-spout re-formed like (Fig. 1) but 

 with less intensity, the tube could again be seen from the cloud 

 to the ocean, and about it spray was leaping up thirty feet. 

 (Fig. 6) In this we see the dying water-spout, the vortex is still 

 spraying up the water, and the tube is rolling up to the clouds. 

 The Signal Master states that the two earlier water-spouts seen 

 at this time and of which no sketches were taken, were something 

 like Figs. 1 and 2. At 7*30 a.m. another water-spout appeared 

 out of the same cloud in an east-north-east direction, distant five 

 miles, and like the others lashed the water under it into foam ; it 

 lasted fifteen minutes and disappeared. 



March 27, 1895. — Mr. Signal Master Francis reports that at 

 6*35 p.m. a water-spout appeared from a dark heavy looking cloud, 



