The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

THE GREAT STORM IN SCOTLAND,

(From the Inverness Courier.)
Our local list of disasters by the storm of Oct. 3
might, unfortunately, be increased to a vast extent
if we were to chronicle all the losses in farm and
wood. We subjoin some details from correspon-
dents : _ _ _ _ .

STRATHSPEY,—NearIy a half of the corn here is
still uncut, and scarcely a sheaf is in stack, so that
a great deal of the best grain is irrecoverably lost
by the wind. But the most perceptible injury is
that done to the woods ; many thousands of trees,
representing thousands of pounds in value, have
been levelled with the ground, some torn up by the
roots, and others broken and splintered half way
up, with the upper portion blown away to a great
distance. In the vicinity of Castle Grant the storm
was terrific, judging from its effects. Many of the
fine old trees which had stood the storms for hun-
dreds of years succumbed beneath the fury of the
gale. We observed limes, oaks, sycamores, elms,
and beeches huddled together in interminable con-
fusion, with large circular masses of earth attached,
in some instances 20ft. in diameter. In exposed
situations the wood was entirely blown down, stone
dykes were smashed by the falling of the trees, iron
fences and wooden palings were to be seen in all
directions. The roads about Grantown were en-
tirely blocked up ; and the Speyside coach, while
passing through a wood in the immediate vicinity,
was almost grazed by a lathge tree which fell across
the road close behind it. ''PA young man in Duthie
was lifted fa'rly off his legs and blown over a fence,
breaking his leg in the fall. Hay stacks were over-
turned, and in some instances entirely blown away;
14 stacks of barley in one corn yard were blown
down, and it will require a very nice discrimination
to make a proper distinction between mourn and
tuum in some cases. Altogether the storm has
made sad havoc here, and it will be many years ere
the beautiful grounds about Castle Grant will re-
cover from its effects.
Lord Moray's estates of Petty and Darnaway
have suffered greatly from the storm of the 3d. Tho
Forres Gazette states that in Petty there are about
10,000 trees, larch and fir, blown down. The value
of the wood cannot of course be correctly estimated,
but at a very moderate calculation it may reach
betwixt £3,000 and £4,000. In Darnaway it is
reported that some 12,000 trees have been blown
down, chiefly oak, larch, and fir. On the green at
the front of the castle there are six large trees
down. One, the celebrated poplar—the finest spe-
cimen of this tree in the north. It measured 108
feet high, and girthed 16 feet 4 inches at the root.
The others are ash and elm, and measured from 10
to 17 feet in circumference. Sir A. Gordon Cum-
ming's fine trees at Altyre have also suffered great
damage.
GLENELG.—The effects of the tornado is described
by a correspondent of the Daily Courant as the
most violent experienced for the last 55 years :
" The roads were strewn with large limbs torn
from fullgrown trees, chiefly ash and poplar; hun-
dreds of larches have been prostrated in the woods
on both sides of the glen, and several fishing-boats
were whirled in the air to great distances, and of
course dashed to pieces on their fall. The tide rose
about three yards perpendicular above its due
height, and the sea in the sound which divides
Glenelg from Skye raged with extraordinary fury.
The schooner, Medora, of Plockton, which was
lying on the beach laden with timber, though se-
cured with three anchors, was driven on shore at
the head of the bay, where she sustained so much
damage that it is doubtful whether she will be
worth repairing; and the ferry-boat of the steamers
was destroyed, in spite of the most strenuous at-
tempts of the men in charge to save her. The
minister's small mission yacht, the Enigma, which
was moored in the bay, and which was at times
almost concealed from sight by the drift and spray,
rode out the gale in safety. There is reason to fear
that the tempest was not confined to this quar-
ter ; for the barometer, the movements of which
usually indicate an extensive prevalence of the
same atmospherical changes, and which stood on
Tuesday evening at 30 inches, fell by midnight to
291, and by daylight on Wednesday to 29
inches. Tidings of serious losses may therefore be
anticipated among shipping ; and the numerous
boats engaged in the herring fishing cannot
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have escaped. Some of these indeed are reported
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have been cast away and their crews drowt as
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while the loss of nets must be considerable. 1
long been observed in this quarter that theavy
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come round by the W. to
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according to the received theory of insular storms,
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would indicate a motion of the centre of the cyclone
from &NV. to N.E. Friday mornin_g.
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