NOTABLE HAILSTORM OF 17 NOVEMBER, 1896, 367 
effect that the hailstorm was particularly severe after crossing 
the Lane Cover River, and caused ruinous havoc, at the few 
orchards about Z on the western side of the continuation of the 
Stony Creek road down to that river. This information, startling 
to me at first, would indicate that the bearing of E. 52° N., 
assigned above as the course of the centre of intensity of the 
storm, from Carlingford to Turramurra, was not a radical alter- 
ation of the course of the whole meteor, as at first supposed, but 
was due to its bifurcation at or near Carlingford; such disturbance 
in its course to be repeated again at or near Turramurra, as pre- 
viously shown, and again ator near Swarze’s to be seen hereafter; 
it is remarkable that at each of these points of bifurcation, the 
divided branches took approximately the same bearings, one to 
the north-east the other to the east. 
The easterly branch from Carlingford devastated Swarze’s 
Strawberry farm at y, but did not extend to Pockley’s z, nor 
Lindfield station ; only a few scattered hailstones fell at Jenkin’s 
orchard, therefore it must have expended itself between Swarze’s 
and this part of the river; but a third departure to the north-east, 
or bifurcation, appears to have occurred near the river, as Mrs. 
Kendall’s orchard at Z was almost ruined. It should be men- 
tioned here that, with the exception of the three farms or orchards 
above mentioned, this part of the valley of Lane Cove River is 
virtually unoccupied, and information to be obtained is necessarily 
very meagre. After passing Mrs. Kendall’s Z, the north-easterly 
branch must also have expended itself before reaching the Lane 
Cove Road ; or following the main spur, by the river road, it may 
have joined the easterly branch from Turramurra, and increased its 
Severity about J. Brown’s and Cook’s, (as it certainly did not 
extend to the Church, or Pockley’s), and its junction with that 
branch may account for the various and shifting currents noticed 
by every one in its eastern part, and for the temporary southerly 
wind recorded by Pymble junr. 
I trust that some of Mr. Russell’s numerous correspondents 
will have enabled him to trace this meteor beyond the narrow 
