The phenomenon was in the first instance described, and certain views were afterwards offered explanatory of it.

It appears that, betwixt 10 P.M. on the 26th November, and 6 A. M. on the 27th November, the channels of the Teviot, Clyde, and Nith, became nearly dry for a great part or their course, so that scarcely any current flowed in them. All the mills on the Clyde, as far down as several miles below New Lanark, were stopped from want of water. The Nith was nearly dry as far down as Enterkinefoot; and the mills on it, and on its tributaries, were stopped. This was the case also on the Teviot. The phenomenon was most strikingly manifested in the higher parts of the rivers, near their sources. The small streams from which they derive their supplies, were in general completely dried up. The rivers, in the lower parts of their course, were not entirely deprived of their current; nor were the rivulets, which there supplied them, nearly so much affected as the rivulets in more elevated districts.