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parts of Kent from the Weft and South-Weft, it 
was calm, hazy, and fun-Shine, and the windatNorth- 
Eaft, in Mount’s-Bay, in the morning ; in the evening 
South-South-Eaft. 
On the 2d of this month of Oft. there was a 
moft violent ftorm on the Eaftern coafts of Britain, 
from Yarmouth to Edinburgh * wind from the North- 
Eaftand Eaft-North-Eaft; many Ships diftreffed, many 
wrecked. What is remarkable, at the fame time 
a likeviolentftorm blewin theWeftern channel, along 
the coaft of Cumberland, Lancafhire, and Wales, but 
the wind from the Weft. In Mount’s-Bay the 
wind was fomewhat ftormy and (howerydn the morn- 
ing, the wind at Weft half North ; in the afternoon 
windy and Showery and Sun-Shine, Weft half South. 
You fee how different, nay oppofite, the winds, even 
in their extremeft violence, are on the Eaftern and 
Weftern coafts, where they have nothing between 
them but a narrow ridge of land. The caufe of this 
remarkable opposition, I Should be glad to fee well 
explained. It muft certainly have lain in the middle 
between the two forces; and it might contribute 
l'omewhat to the difcovery, to know whence, and. to 
what degree, the wind blew on the mountains in Scot- 
land, and as far South as Derbyshire, from Sunday 
morning to Monday noon : but thefe are particulari- 
ties not to be expefted till the age becomes more 
philosophical. I remain, my Lord, 
Your moft obliged 
and obedient Servant, 
W. Borlafe. 
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