2IO DIRECTION- OF V.1ND IX I.OCAL STOHMS. 



The wind was in gusts from all j^oints of the compass, 

 demolishing mv umbrella in a t\\ inkling, leaving me to 

 the mcrcv of the elements. I was drenched in a moment, 

 and in an indescribably short space of time the body of 

 the buggy was full of water and overflowing, though near 

 four inches in depth. The roads were like rivers, ard 

 cvervthiiigf was flooded. 



In driving north three and cne half miles 1 passed en- 

 tirely out of the limit of tlie storm of hail and rain, but 

 the wind for two miles fiu'ther had been violent; from tiiC 

 south, prostrating corn and some trees, and blowing 

 down one barn. The next morning 1 repassed the ground 

 and found that the southern limit of the storm was about 

 six miles from its northern limit, and at that i^art. that the 

 the wind was strong from the north, doing some dam- 

 age. In the afternoon I visited the Iron Ore Hill in Lis- 

 bon, which lie west of the centre of the shower, and 

 found the wind there had been strong iVom the east. 

 I'pon m\' return 1 examined carefully by the ])lants and trees 

 and b\ iii(juii"\- into the direction of the wiiul. and Ibuiid it 

 in everv instance, upon the westward side direct from the 

 st<jrm ; and all described it as cool though the foreiuxjn 

 of the day of the shower was \ery hot and sultry, with so 

 little wind that I was unable to learn its direction. As 

 the eastern limit of the storm was towards the White 

 ^Mountain range, and a wilderness, I could get no in- 

 formation of its extent or severity, only by the rise of the 

 streams fed bv it. which was very great on all little 

 streams, within or running through the limit of a circle 

 six miles in diameter. 



Upon my return home to Concord, Vt., I resolved to 

 investigate fully the next storm of similar import. I soon 

 removed to Lunenburgh. where I now reside, but saw 

 nothing of similar storms until June 30, 1856. The morn- 



