its boat swamped. Indeed the storm seems to have been here 
at its worst. In the dip beyond, two ashes (58) and a splendid 
oak (55) were uprooted. Many trees, especially willows, had 
the bark stripped off branches and twigs. Just beyond, a barn 
(60) was half untiled and blown askew, three ashes shattered 
and a stack demolished, its hay lying thick for a width of 50 
yards on the next two hedges. The track here followed a 
drainage stream, to ^^West Moor,’’ the long approach to 
Tilmire Common. On this section of f mile it was narrow 
again and damage was confined to the tearing off of limbs and 
boughs. Then there was a sudden access of fury, on the 
southern edge, as shown by uprooted trees, &c. (86—91), for a 
width of 500 yards, and this continued to the Heslington 
“out-gang” to Tilmire. No. (110), in the village, represents 
an apple tree, wrenched off at the head of the trunk. It is the 
only serious damage N. of the main track, whereas several 
numbers show more or less damage S. of it. At (109) a small 
barn was blown down. Then comes the treeless | mile of 
Heslington “ Low Field,” with slight damage along the 
southern boundary lane. The damage in the “ Ox Closes ” was 
confined to branches, except that, at the very last, a large, but 
unsound ash-tree (133), was snapped across. Beyond this, the 
wind for some distance was very violent, but I neither found 
nor heard of any further damage. 
Violent gusts of wind occurred later in the afternoon from 
time to time, but no other damage was done near York. 
Branches were, however, torn off near the place where the 
N. E. R. crosses the Wharfe at Bolton Percy. An hour and a 
half later there was violent wind in Notts, and Lincolnshire, 
with damage in the latter county, especially the destruction of 
a windmill at Heckington, 70 miles S.E. from York. 
Captain Key appears to have had the best view of the 
gathering storm. “ It appeared to me,” he wrote, “ as if two 
angry thunderclouds met over the Archbishop’s) Palace at 
Bishopthorpe [S.W. by W. from his position],^one coming 
from the South, the other from the North-west.” Then “ there 
was a sort of roar, the hut trembled, and all was over in less 
than a minute.” Lightning flashes were noticed both before 
