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PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



New Britain, Willimantic, and New London all had a violent storm, 

 and a belt of destructive hail fell between Middletown and Colchester. 

 In Massachusetts the storm was brief, but rather violent around 

 Worcester, where numerous lightning strokes were reported ; but the 

 distribution of these strokes, as well as of the hail, is not based on 

 sufficiently uniform reports to serve as the ground of any general 

 statements. On Blue Hill the wind was very violent for a short time, 

 but elsewhere in eastern Massachusetts it was generally of moderate 

 severity. The backward turn of the rain-front in Massachusetts 

 began too far inland to be attributed to the effect of the ocean ; it is 

 rather to be regarded as the ordinary lagging behind of the side of 





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the storm. The wind-squall at a number of the marginal stations 

 turned from its general northwest direction, and blew out from the 

 side of the storm to the northeast or north. The observations off 

 shore, on Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, and at 

 Provincetown, accord tolerably well with the advance of the storm as 

 determined on land ; and Provincetown reported seeing lightning in 

 the east till late in the evening. 



The storm seems to have advanced to the east-southeast at an 

 average rate of forty-three miles an hour. Like the storm of the 

 morning it is peculiar in approaching the sea-coast with hardly 

 diminished severity. 



Revieio. — In view of the many questions that still remain unsettled, 

 it does not seem safe to enter yet very far on the interesting task of 



