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limits to which I have confined myself, both as to its initiation 
and final dispersion. I regret that the absence of my business 
partner, owing to a long illness, has left me little leisure for 
either more personal inspection or the putting together of avail- 
able data in a better form. Had I not been so circumstanced I 
should have gladly given several of the days, immediately after 
the storm, to the personal collection of evidence in writing, from 
most of the residents and orchardists on its main lines ; and I 
think that the collation of such materials by more practised hands 
than mine, would have been very interesting, and possibly of some 
real value to meteorological research. 
