Show A MULTITUDE bultitude OF waterspouts WATER SPOUTS AT SEA on the 12 oth instant I 1 left launceston Launce ston in the lady denisha Den isoa on the a waterspout appeared in the distance not near enough to cause apprehension i A few ho re after bow oon ever A an immense one hove in albrit much 17 nearer a r e r a and n dike passed the ship at right angles it s seemed e e e d I 1 like ilke a gigantic hose bose letdown eroin froin the cloud ha hal bal 1 accumulated in in great m masses ses seb a and d communicating with a c aldron in the sea hardly had we cleared this when I 1 perceived through the tempes bous waves a gale was now blowing a wide whirling Nh irling eddy edely of I 1 called out to the captain that a steamer was coming fast down on our beams but at the very instant of epe pe kin kid king I 1 saw that it was a ond und hying flying at the rate of at least sixty miles an hour it was a wonder ful sight eight fancy a cauldren cauldron caul dron ei eltty aty yards yarda wide I 1 boiling madly and hurling its steam up to the clouds not steam only for tor such was the force that email small bodies boiles of water were carried aloft and about with inconceivable velocity and fancy this cauldren cauldron caul dron rushi rushing ig at you as tt raight as an arrow while the winds were howling in in a frantic gale and the sky was waa covered with blackest clouds in in every quarter at once the vessels head was turned north and bj by east the cauldron cauldren caul dron instantly changed its ita direction and what will your readers say when I 1 inform them that we tacked round lound to almost every point of the compass and that the fearful thing followed us at every turn until we succeeded in clearing it by tacking taci ing to the S 6 W on the very instant of our success the man at the wheel ban sang out another on the eather weather quarter birn birly and there was another equally large larges fie ce and speedy which passed near our stern immediately after afier was heard another anthe weather beam sir we cleared that and then another on the weather bow sir was wag shouted by the steersman in brief nine nice waterspouts water spouts passed close to us in twenty minutes any of which woud in a moment have haic sent us to the bottom perhaps the most extraordinary tra inar thing yet remains to be told each cauldron cauldren caul aul dron after passing us halted about ha ba f a mile off and when nhen the whirl grew more dense the steam was lifted higher and a tongue was let down from the clouds immediately above forming a regular hose ghose 3 so to speak up which the water went in immense immerse quantities the whole nine then ranged themselves close to boether together ether on our lea each being perfectly A ad and in shape exactly like a boys boya boys peg top the spike being in the water and the top spreading through the clouds sydney morning herald |