14 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 17

ENGLISH WINDS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9

Sr,--As one who was born and brought up at the foot of Cross Fell, may I add to the interesting notice of the - phenomenon of the Helm wind in your last issue the fact • that this strange wind blows between two banks of clouds about six or eight miles apart, the Helmet cloud proper resting on the summit of the Cross Fell range, the other bank of clouds, the "Bar," as it is locally known, being parallel to the "Helmet," but separated from it by several miles of hard blue sky ? Within this zone the wind rages with terrible force, but is hardly felt beyond.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Guthrie Lodge, Albert .Road, Clifton. M. HALL-HOUGHTON.