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welcome in this respect that we are led to garner and make use of an 
abundance of facts which lie to hand and only need the trouble of 
reaping. 
Addenda. 
Since this paper was read, Mr. John Scarborough, of Halifax, 
has been good enough to communicate to me a reminiscence of his 
boyhood connected with the subject. He remembers a storm 
which brought salt with it in such quantity that it formed an in- 
crustation on the tiles and window panes : he saw and tasted it. 
He fixes the date approximately by the roofing of St. Marie's Roman 
Catholic Church, which was early in 1839. 
The Great Salt Storm of 1830. 
I determined to look up contemporary records for further par- 
ticulars, and my investigations were considerably lightened by Mr. 
Joseph Whiteley, the Borough Librarian, placing in my hands a 
small volume entitled, " Narrative of the Dreadful Disasters occasioned 
by the Hurricane which visited Liverpool and various parts of the 
Kingdom on the nights of Sunday and Monday, Jan. 6th and 7th, 
1839.^' 
All Sunday, Jan. Gth, the wind was blowing strongly from the 
S.E. ; the barometer fell considerably, and the ^nnd shifted suddenly 
to the S.W., and, increasing in rapidity, became a perfect hurricane 
soon after midnight. Vessels were driven ashore, trees up-rooted, 
houses unroofed, chimneys and thick walls were blown down. The 
storm still raged until Monday afternoon, when it began to abate, 
and about 10 o'clock there was a perfect lull, followed by furious 
gusts from the X.W. The following extracts are references to the 
drenching with brine to which the country was subject, and affording 
abundant evidence that during this storm salt was driven from tlie 
Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean right across the island : — 
St. Helens. — " Such was the force of the tempest here that 
the salt spray from Liverpool covered all the shrubs and hedges in 
the whole neighbourhood, and the plants, windows, c'V'c., were white 
and covered as with hoar frost." 
