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designate as the bifurcation of the main meteor, (coming from 
Seven Hills and Carlingford), into two currents, trending the one 
to the north-east, and the other due east: my reasons for this exclu- 
sion are as follows, viz.:—The evidence of the station master at 
Turramurra, to the effect of the storm having veered its course in all 
directions, has been further endorsed by others, and in Irishtown 
especially its favours appear to have been very unequally dis- 
tributed ; at V (Pymble jr.), as I am advised by Mr. Bradford, it 
at one time veered completely round to the east, the haalstones 
having perforated the corrugated iron on a verandah facing easterly. 
Mr. Bradford reports that Mr. Pymble junr., distinctly stated to 
him that, for a short time, he watched a flow of southerly wind, 
which appeared to beat back the storm and to divide it, the wind 
veering in all directions, with the results to his verandah above 
stated. This statement, as well as that of the station master at 
Turramurra, was volunteered to me, before I had formed any 
views of my own as to the bifurcation of the storm ; in fact my 
first generalization of it, based on its effects at Turramurra only, 
as communicated in my memo. of the 18th to Mr. Russell, was 
that the storm appeared to have come from the south-west and to 
have travelled north-east. 
I think that the evidence which I have illustrated on my diagram 
(Plate 23) proves indisputably the bifurcation referred to; that of 
Mrs. Foster and Adams, T. Porter and Reilley on the one hand, 
and of Brown, Cook, Hughes and W. Reid on the other, with the 
immunity of P. Richardson and 8. King between the two, can 
scarcely admit of any other inference being drawn; and Pymble 
junr’s. statement, backed by others, as to the veering of the wind 
in the central part about Irishtown, would appear to indicate @ 
eycloidal disturbance much in the position in which it might have 
been expected to occur; but as to whether such disturbance was 4 
cause or effect of the division of the main storm, is a matter on 
which I cannot pretend to offer an opinion. 
Since completing the above notes, I have obtained some further 
: information which appears to be of remarkable interest ; to the 
