' f . ~ „;n ho found in bhis book. *". *!" ,K P IK" tb. In- attempt S_asl^.W iff. ,p ™»tbo,'. pn*r». !»<• b»»;°B tei!Sh'.,, ! .n. rC;r „, S nob be in the way ; where ib will nob Srrupt the flow of the narrative. And it m °bt to be the ablest weather bhab can be 1,3, not ignorant, pooi-cfuality, amateur Weather. Weather is a literary specialty, ■Ed no untrained hand can turn out a good article of it. The present author can do only a few trifling ordinary kinds of rather, and be cannot do those very good So it has seemed wisest to borrow such . weather as ia necessary for the book from ' qualified aad recognised experts-giving credit, of course. This weather will be found over in the back part of the book, out of the way. See Appendix. The.reader : is requested to turn over and help Inmsclt ; from time te time as he goes along.
APPENDIX.
Yi'EA.n-R For Use in This Book,

(Selected From the Best Authorities.)

1 A brief though violent thunderstorm which had raged over the city waß passing amy, but still, though the rain had ceased more blmn an hour before, wild piles of dark and coppery clouds, in which a feres and rayleaa glow w_3 labouring. friganficiiily overhung tha grotesque and huddled vista of dwarf houses, while in the distance, sheeting high over the low, misty confusion of gables and chimneys,, spread a pall of dead, leprous blue, suffused with blotches of dull glistening yellow, and with black plagtie-spofs nf vapour floating, and faint lightning crinklintrs on ibs surface..
