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HURRICANE OF HTII NOVEMBER. 147 and only too justly — that there might prove to chap. be no means of feeding them. (2*) '__ Lord Raglan's measures for replacing the stores destroyed on the 14th of November, were so well conceived and so prompt, that they speedily produced their intended effect ; but there were some of the losses, and especially the loss of the hay, which no energy exerted from the Crimea could quickly repair. And it is certain that a large proportion of the hard- ships endured by our army in the coming December and January owed their source, after all, to the hurricane of the previou? month.