noon, accompanied with large hail. 27. Very rainy day. 29. A thunder storm about 3 p. m., with heavy rain mixed with hail.

In travelling at different intervals during this month between London and Folkstone, I have observed that the showers in great measure avoided the high chalky tracts, and followed the course of the rivers and moist valleys. The reverse distribution sometimes takes place.

Being on the heights above Folkstone, Kent, about 10 p.m. on the 14th of seventh month, I observed a brilliant meteor dart down in the southern sky, tending a little E in its fall; during which it was of a bright blue, but at the moment of extinction it became red and seemed to explode.

WATER SPOUT.

July 22.-The inhabitants of Cromer were gratified by the appearance of a water spout, which continued in sight for some minutes, when the mass or column of water collected between a cloud and the surface of the sea broke in the offing, without doing any injury to the shipping.

STORMS IN DORSETSHIRE.

On Wednesday the 29th July, a man was struck by lightning at Aston Pits, near Newport, in this county, and very dreadfully burnt. The same day there were very heavy storms of thunder and lightning in that neighbourhood.— During the present week much injury has been done to the growing crops in various parts of this county, and the vicinity of Pool, by violent torrents of rain.-(PAPERS).

NOTES.-Eighth Mo. 4. Wet afternoon. 5. Wet morning. 6. "The day was gloomy: about 4 p. m. a very heavy shower commenced, which continued for about 20 minutes, then abated for a short time, but increased again, and continued all the evening, with thunder and lightning: the barometer was nearly stationary." Such were the phenomena at the laboratory, where there fell 1.39 inch of rain. At Plaistow, two miles distant, there appears to have fallen only 0.41 inch of rain, and I find only this note, "Thunder in the afternoon." 13. Foggy morning: a Stratus at night. 14. The same

17. The same: lunar halo. 18. Some lightning during the night. 21. Thunder between 1 and 2 p. m. 24. Bright moonlight. 28. The wind this night very high.

The India Papers contain an account of the descent of two huge masses of stone in the neighbourhood of Lahore, accompanied by a series of explosions resembling the discharge of cannon;-a phenomenon, which had excited the utmost consternation throughout the country.-A meteoric stone also fell on the 6th of August, (1812?) near the British lines at Punderpoor. It weighed four pounds, was very heavy for its size, being impregnated with iron, and coated with a thin black crust, as if gunpowder had exploded round it. The ground where it fell was an open space, near the village of Kokurrgam, and by the rapidity of its descent, it was buried a foot deep in the earth. It was picked up by a native of rank, and was, with the greatest difficulty obtained by Captain M., as the possessor, conceiving that it was of heavenly fabrication, had determined to repeat his prayers to it thrice a day,(P. Ledger, Oct. 1813.)

Compare this with the worship paid by the Ephesians to the Diopetous, (that which fell from Jupiter) as mentioned Acts xix. v. 35: where note, that the word image is supplied in the translation, leaving it probable from the original, that it was in fact a Meteoric Stone.-L. H.

Between 4 and 5 p.m. crossed the village of

a tornado (as it seems by the description given) Plaistow, in a direction from NE to SW, which left behind it considerable traces of its violence: a large quantity of wheat in sheaves was carried over a hedge into a neighbouring field: a fence was levelled, and about seventy oak hurdles torn out of the ground, some of which were seen tumbling over in the air, and fell at two hundred yards distance.

Ninth Mo. 12. Misty morning: much dew. 13, 14. The same in the evening, a dense Stratus reflecting on its surface with much

brilliancy the orange colour of the western sky. 15. Hoar frost in the pastures: a Stratus at night as before, the wind coming about to the eastward soon after it was formed. 16. Cirrus, with Cirrostratus and Cumulus. 17. Rain most of the afternoon: a rich crimson tinge on the lower surface of the clouds at sunset. 18. At sunset the sky was extensively coloured with orange, surmounted by a distinct blush of red the colour was reflected in the E horizon. 19. Much hoar frost. 22. Clear morning at first, but soon overcast, with rain. 25. Hoar frost. 26. Cirrostratus.

RESULTS.

Easterly Winds prevailed the fore part, and Westerly the latter part, of this period.

An avalanche occurred on the 4th of September, in the neighbourhood of Villeneuve, Switzerland. A part of the eastern chain of the Fourches, which had been sapped by a stream that ran at the base, suddenly fell with a terrific noise. About 30 cottages were buried beneath the ruins, and 12 of their inmates killed. The noise of the avalanche was heard at the distance of six miles.

EARTHQUAKE.

Shocks of an earthquake were felt throughout Italy on the 11th and 12th of September. At Florence, several houses, public edifices, and two churches were thrown down. The inhabitants, under the influence of extreme terror, fled into the country, and the greater part of the population abandoned their homes, and passed two days and nights in the fields.-(PAPERS).