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Show JLxt lnordlnttry Waterspouts ill (be htratta of Dover. A correspondent of the London Daily Attcs, writing from Calais, under date ot August 31, says: Yesterday evening, eve-ning, between six and seven o'clock, a singular phenomenon was witnessed by a large number of people at Calais. From the edge of a thick black thunder thun-der cloud two funnel-shaped pt'ojoc tions were Been to depend, until they gradually reached the surface of the sea, on which they created a great disturbance, dis-turbance, masses of Ibam rising uji (o a considerable height around the foot of each water-spout. It was calculated that the long streamers hanging down from the cloud to the sea wore nearly a mile iu length. The wind caused them to wtivt t,bou,t gently, aud alter their form from time to time. One of the waterspouts lasted about ten minutes, min-utes, and the other obuut a uuartcr of an hour. During tips time thuv moved rapidly along the i-ea, aud would probably prob-ably have proved fatal to any vessel they might have crossed. A bright blue sky below the cloud, formed a background which threw up the long, dark, thin columns with startling leur-ness. leur-ness. Lightning aud thunder ibllowed the termination of this phenomenon; but only a tew drops of rain. I have seen several waterspouts in the Pacific ocean, but never any that could be at all compared with these for great height and wonderful clearness of outline. As might be expected, xouie of the crowd I considered (his a portrnt of war. I |
