360 
REPORT—1847. 
anterior slope of tbe south-west wave, received a check still slighter than i 
Ilelstone about the same time; about 10 a.m. of the 8th the baromtic 
passed a slight luaximuDu 
(3). Galway, Nov. 6, 3 p.m. —The barometer, which bad been failiDgsua 
midnight of the .5th, from the same cause as at Limerick and 
namely, the pos^rior slope of Iho .Houtli-westerly wave, suddenly comnuacn 
nsmg veiy rapidly. Observation at 3 P.m. 29154. At midnighl, afterriai 
•ifi inch, It received a check; this was about tlie time the trough <iflh 
ftorJh-ireM wave passed. At 6 a.m. of the 7th it again comtntDced rini; 
imd at 9 a.m. had altahicd tlio altitude of 30-10, making a rise of -ieisf' 
hours. After this epoch it rose but slightly, attaining a maximum of 3(tii 
n 3 P.M. the 8th, the maximum previously observed at HelstoneaiKlI/ 
menck. After this it as gradually ileolitied until 9 a.m. of the 9th, wk«f 
began to fall rather rapidly. From .3 p.m. of the 7th to 9 a.m. of theWr 
.i"®® , y stationary, presenting a broad well-defined symmetrical c» 
lie this .stationary chameter of tbe barometer occurred at Galwayt thek 
romeU'W ^ Limerick and Helstonc were both rising. 
^ , p i!" ? I Nov. 6, 9 P.M-— The smaller wave succeedingtheww 
cres o the 'tth noticed at Hcistone, Litnorick and Galway, appears to hw 
oeen obliterated at Hobbs’ Point; it is scarcely observable in the JeRcycufu 
H* slight rise on the upward movement of tbe curvpfc 
o 8 loint, ihc great rise commences at 9 p.m., and continues unintr 
niptctily until the maximum of the 8th is attained at 9 A.m. This WBlwi 
c pent) of the Ilelstone and Limerick ma.xiraum. and earlier tiuti Ik 
a way. 1 he. later occurrence of the commencement of the riseappe»fl‘‘ 
Iroin the progress of the itvo anterior slopes. After tk ;*• 
.® •^^xinitim the barometric variations are but slight, 
hnt .r (Stratton), Nov. 6, 3 p.m.— The wave-cresl of the ilii » 
at this station. The great rise is howeter'^ 
o A VI ® and it proceeds almost unlnterriipte<i(r“'‘^ 
this epoch the curve more resembles thcHriBlo"' 
^ c'lrves ill its rising to tJie principal maximum of tbeftk 
tif rbo A tt Nov. 6, 3 P.M.— The 5<imc obliteration of the 
i at this station as at Stratton; the 
Hidernhl*. »c trine, 3 p.m., and proceeded with some ralhetf**’ 
iinlv tut t maximum of the 8tli, which in this cuneepi^ 
II.J® ' bulge on thc! iipwarfl nioveuu'iit to the maximum 
Jersrv* fo T?n,1’ • ^ wave-crest of tbe 4lh, extending^ 
the slmo tim. tick, pawod Hobbs* Point, Brecon and Rirniingham nisih* 
tincham miH . *'* ^^titthy of notice, that at Glouce-ster, Cirencester. 
cri‘.st was'oiiit > ® is nearly obliterated; the succeeding waveiud* 
monced a I ** 'f®|’®tcd at Brecon, so that the rise at the *tat»* ^ 
mum of the Stl’rat^y P'^oceeded uninterruptedly until the m*®* 
thefitb ^ —The riseat this .elation commenced at 5 
mm-Ii ^8 anteriorslopeof the south-west wave: i« » 
7th, ohserved nf Helstone or Limerick. The interruptmn of'J* 
the .same enuAM Galway, is marked by a small bulge, indif^ 
enuse.8 unnear'f'T a tract frora'Jersey to Galway. 
Pointi Brecon ® ceased or to have been rendered neutral at 
(9\ Cirencester, 
same bulne of thp 7 /^'?' ^ almost uninterrupted rise wh** ^ 
arisen from a f..,m / ?’ ® g«*eater range. T'his range appears to 
a furmel-sJmped depression early in the morning of the 6th. 
