14 THE ri.OOD OF 1S43. 



there was no wind, the streams (for it fell more in streams 

 than in drops) were, apparently (juite vertical. Professor F. 

 was unprepared to measure the (luantity of rain which fell, 

 but it exceeded any thinj^ which he ha<l ever witnessed. 

 From well authenticated information, which he received from 

 the farm of Mrs. Grubh, in Hrandywine Hundred, near the 

 State line, he is perfectly satisfied that the fall of rain at that 

 place exceeded ten inches in about two hours. The rain was 

 much ear ier at Mrs. Grubb's farm than at Mr. West's, com- 

 mencing there about two o'clock. 



In the township of Rethel, not far from the line of the 

 State of Delaware, a hurricane of great violence occurred 

 about four or five o'clock in the afternoon. The wind blew 

 from difTerent points at different places in the same neighbor- 

 hood, as is manifest from the position of uprooted trees, &c. 

 A peach orchard belonging to Mr. Clayton, was blown down 

 — the trees laying to the X. E. An apple orchard not very 

 distant, lays prostrated toward the South East. At John 

 Larkin's, two miles north of Clayton's, the gale appears to 

 have been most violent. The wind came from the south east, 

 and tore up a large quantity of heavy timber (said to be 

 about two hundred cords) all in a narrow strip, not more than 

 two hundred yards in width. A valley of woodland, bounded 

 by pretty high hills, had nearly all of its timber blown down, 

 and what is very remarkable, the trees are not generally laid 

 lengthwise of the valley, but across it, with their tops towards 

 the north-east, while on the adjacent hills but few trees were 

 uprooted — one very large white oak, however, which was 

 deeply and strongly rooted in a clay soil, was blown down. 



At a neighbour's, opposite to Mr. Larkin's, the wind blew 

 from the south, laying several apple-trees due north. The 

 gale left few if any traces, except in one neighborhood — say 

 within the compass of three scpiare miles. Indeed it does not 

 aj^pear to have been severe, except on a few detached farms. 

 The above observations were communicated by John Kecnan, 

 who resides in that vicinity. 



