o2() nULLKTIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
to 1890.* The implication from these sources that the gale 
was ver\' local is confirmed also from other sources. Our 
colleague, Or. G. F. Matthew, writes me; — 
A heavy southwest gale struck us in the Maritime Provinces, causing 
much destruction, and a very high tide in the Bay of Fundy. The worst 
effects of the gale were felt in Charlotte and York counties, across which 
it swept diagonally. 
A series of extracts from contemporary newspapers, kindly 
sent me through Professor Cleveland Abbe of the Weather 
Bureau at Washington, shows that in Nova Scotia its effects 
were very severe along the Ba}" of Fundy, though it did no 
great damage along the Atlantic coast of that Province. In 
general, therefore, we may summarize its extent by saying that 
it was a local southwest gale which attained its maximum of 
violence in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, especially cen- 
tering in the Bay of Fundy. 
Third, as to its violence, and the damage it did. That this 
gale attained a violence altogether unusual is the universal 
testimony, though I have not found the actual meteorological 
records. These will, no doubt, be given in the article later 
mentioned, to be published by Mr. D. L. Hutchinson. As 
typical of its effects I may quote from a letter written me by 
one of the Society’s most accurate observers, Mr. James Vroom, 
of St. Stephen : — 
Next morning .... I went up through Milltown and back through 
Calais on a tour of inspection, and counted upwards of thirty buildings 
blown down, unroofed, or otherwise more or less injured by the gale. Among 
the buildings blown down was the Universalist Church at Milltown, N. B.; 
and it was in that storm that Christ Church, (St. Stephen), lost its tower. 
The storm was at its height about eight o’clock in the evening .... 
I heard the church bell rung by the swaying of the tower, and we looked 
out just in time to see the tower fall. A day or two later I went back to 
St. John by stage; and I have a very vivid recollection of the journey. We 
were frequently stopped by windfalls, and obliged to cut a way through. 
Of course we saw many trees and buildings blown down all along the route; 
but the extreme force of the wind seemed to have been felt in comparatively 
narrow strips, where, for perhaps a quarter of a mile or more in width, there 
^According to The Naturalist of th‘> Saint Crux, Bangor, 1903 57. 
