Gents Mag 1758 p.427

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1758 p.427
storm, 1756   Wigton
	Storms, Wigton Sumary of the content of article XXIV in Philosophical Transactions, published by the Royal Society, vol.50 part 1,1757. XXIV. An account of the effects of a storm at Wigton in Cumberland. On Dec. 6, 1756, about 11 o'clock at night, a violent hurricane began, which lasted till near three in the morning; it swept away many stacks of hay and corn, unroofed many houses, and laid several in ruins, tore up some trees by the roots, and snapt others off in the middle, scattering the branches in fragments over the adjacent fields; some were twisted almost round, others split down to the root. Every herb, plant, and flower, to a considerable distance has its leaves withered , shrivelled up, and turned black; the leaves on the trees on the weather side were in the same condition, and the ever-greens only escaped. The alteration produced in the plants, leaves, and flowers, was at first supposed to be the effect of lightning, but it was afterwards found that though little rain had fallen during the storm, yet these vegetables were covered with a dew as salt as sea water, and retained a saline taste for near a week. It was then conjectured that the withered appearance of the leaves and herbage was the effect of this salt dew, as the same is known to happen to the leaves of hedges and trees, near the coast on that side next the sea, after a strong wind in that direction, which is supposed to bring the sea-water with it, the leaves next the land retaining their verdure.
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