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had been conveyed by the gust to a distance of many nolles ; 

 another had found a cow lodged in the fork of a large half-bro- 

 ken tree. But as I am disposed to relate only what I have my- 

 self seen, I shall not lead you into the region of romance, bat 

 shall content myself with saying that much damage was done by 

 this awful visitation. The valley is yet a desolate place, over- 

 grown with briars and bushes thickly entangled amidst the tops 

 and trunks of the fallen trees, and is the resort of ravenous ani- 

 mals, to which they betake themselves when pursued by man, 

 or after they have committed their depredations on the farms of 

 the surrounding districts. I have crossed the path of the storm 

 at a distance of a hundred miles from the spot where I witness- 

 ed its fury, and, again, four hundred miles farther off, in the 

 State of Ohio. Lastly, I observed traces of its ravages on the 

 summits of the mountains connected with the Great Pine Forest 

 of Pennsylvania, three hundred miles beyond the place last men- 

 tioned. In all these different parts it appeared to me not to 

 have exceeded a quarter of a mile in breadth. 



Description and Explanation of a simple Rain-Gage^ calculated 

 to sliow the depth of Rain fallen around it to the ten-thcyicsandth 

 part of an Inch. By Matthew Adam, A.M., Rector of 

 the Royal Academy of Inverness, and Associate of the So- 

 ciety of Arts for Scotland. Communicated by the Author. 



The parts composing this Rain-Gage, are represented in the 

 annexed diagram, on a scale of ^i\\ of an inch to an inch ; viz. 

 1st, A square-mouthed filler, A B Z c D ?w, to collect the rain wa- 

 ter, having the length of each side A B, A C, &c., of its mouth 

 equal to 10 inches, or its superficial area equal to 100 square 

 inches, and about half an inch of its mouth bent up, so as to 

 prevent any part of the rain entering it from being afterwards 

 blown out by wind. Its throat D is closed, with exception of 

 10 or 12 small holes, each about Jth of an inch in diameter, to 

 permit the descent of the rain water, and to retard its escape 

 by evaporation. 2d, A large bottle E F G, which admits in- 



