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142 THE WINTEli TKOUBLES. CHAPTER VII. THE HURRICANE OF THE 14TH OF NOVEMBER, I. CHAP. In the evening of the 13th of November after VII ' wild storms of wind and rain there set in a calm which lasted until an hour before sunrise on the following day ; but then over the open downs on the Chersonese, and the neighbouring coasts, harbours, and roadsteads, there swept on the The cyclone 14th of November a violent hurricane accom- nf the 14th -ii 1 1 iTi- 11 ofNovera- pauicd bj thuuder and lightning, by heavy ram, hail, and sleet, and followed, before the day ended, by driving snow. (^) The storm, it appears, was a cyclone revolving upon a centre which passed from south to north at the rate of no more than some twenty miles an hour, but on this moving axis the wliirlwind flew roiiiid with a velocity said to have reached to nearly a mile in the minute. (^) Of the French ship[)ing, one man-of-war, the Henri IV., one despatch-boat, and several supply-vessels and transports were lost ; (^) but it was upon the English supply-ships, ber.