' The dreadful catastrophe that happened at Asterton ': a hurricane or an avalanche in Shropshire?
' The dreadful catastrophe that happened at Asterton ': a hurricane or an avalanche in Shropshire?
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“阿斯特顿发生的可怕灾难”：什罗普郡的飓风还是雪崩？
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10.1080/01433768.2022.2064123
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2022
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Bowen J
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Bowen J
本文重建的过程中发生在阿斯特顿在南什罗普郡在世纪后期，当时被归因于飓风的事件。在回顾了幸存的证据，特别是爱德华·罗杰斯牧师写的当代记录以及验尸官的调查报告，报纸文章，历史气象数据和自然景观之后，我们会认为这很可能是雪崩而不是飓风。雪崩经常发生在法国和瑞士的阿尔卑斯山等山区，其原因和影响已经很清楚，长期以来一直吸引着自然地理学家的注意。然而，在18世纪和19世纪初，人们对这些自然现象知之甚少。旅行者经常注意到观察雪崩和同时代人出版的帐户，如发生在Bergemoletto在意大利阿尔卑斯山在1755年。将阿斯特顿事件解释为飓风，说明了人们对雪崩以及其他自然现象的理解在世纪是如何发展的。
This paper reconstructs the course of an event that happened at Asterton in south Shropshire in the late eighteenth century which at the time was attributed to a hurricane. Having reviewed the surviving evidence, in particular a contemporary account written by Reverend Edward Rogers as well as the coroner’s inquisition report, newspaper articles, historic meteorological data, and the physical landscape, it will be argued that it was in all probability an avalanche rather than a hurricane. The causes and effects of avalanches which regularly occur in mountainous areas like the French and Swiss Alps are well understood, having long attracted the attention of physical geographers. However, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries relatively little was known about these natural phenomena. Travellers often noted observing avalanches and contemporaries published accounts of them such as that which occurred at Bergemoletto in the Italian Alps in 1755. The interpretation of the event at Asterton as a hurricane illustrates how the understanding of avalanches as well as other natural phenomena was developing in the eighteenth century.