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Show A Storm Wave. A great stona wave is pecnliar to cy- j clones. Atthe center of the disturbance ! the mercury in a good barometer may I be lower by throes inches than that in a ! similar iuKtrnuient on the verge of the ; cyclone. Thisisowiitf: to thedmiinntion of atmospheric iwessure consequent on the rotation of the air wheel; and a.s nature abhors a vacuum, tbe sea in the Tortejt rises above its usual level until equilibrium is restored. This storm wave advances with the hurricane, and rolls in upon the low land like a solid wall, lu the 15ackeri(ung cyclone of HT6 the storm wave covered the land at the eastern end of tho Ganges delta at heights varying from ten to forty-live feet, as measured by marks on the trees. ' One hundred thousand lives were lost on j this occasion. Chambers' Journal. I |