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those old cannon except in Turkey, and in some few for- 
tresses of urope, where they are preserved as monuments 
of the art in its infancy. The dimensions of all the pieces 
of artillery have been successively reduced, and that arm 
has only been really improved in proportion as it has been 
made lighter ; or in other words, its greatest perfection con- 
sists in making it produce the greatest possible effect with 
the least possible expense of active forces. 
and size of artillery : this circumstance has ee ren- 
dered the progress of that arm much more rapid than the 
improvements in Hydraulic Architecture. Hence in the 
latter species of construction we are still at the large pieces. 
EE 
Arr. XII. avn ai ge of a remarkable storm which occur- 
at Catskill, ilaly 20; 1819. 
=s [Rea before the Cat Lyceum] 
To eS Sirumay, 
Dear Sir—Agreeably to your request, I now transmit to 
you an account of the great storm, which occurred here on 
Monday afternoon the 26th July, 1819. At that time I was 
absent on a journey, in the state of Pennsylvania. Of course 
T am indebted to,others for that class of facts which relate 
to the immediate phenomena of thestorm. I reached home 
on the following Monday 5 and during that that week spent much 
of the time in collecting facts relative to it; and have since 
to time, visited various places, where uncom- 
‘ravages were re occagioned, and have spared no pains in 
obtaining all the information of an interesting nature which 
could be collected. Every fact communicated by others, 
or fae The ue, ayaa was immediately committed to writ- 
uscript has lain by me about fifteen months. 
Tb have more : dias once, visited several of the places, ol 
( Siloam exist, and be! lieve the account to be in 
2 am | 
ee oa res ectfall ; at he, 
Mee) OBENTAMIN CW. _ DWIGET. 
Catskill, February 5, 1821 
