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174 = Miscellanies. 
visited the West Indies on the night of Wednesday, August 10, 1881, 
occurs the following. “ .* * Those who were driven into the fields, so 
far from being able to stand on their legs, could not even sit up, the wind 
was so violent as to throw them on their faces. The lightning flashed 
tremendously in their eyes and-appeared to strike the ground only a few 
yards from them; but such was the roar of the wind, that the thunder 
could naling een Fesanes Ghd heen were seen to fall — the 
clouds.” 
2% The ¢ account wi this hurricane cle is copied Sent a Bridgetown 
(Barbadoes) paper into Lieut. Col. Reid’s “ Attempt to develop the Law 
of Storms, Sc.” 8vo. London, 1838, gives the following additional partic- 
ulars. “ About.3-A. M. (Aug. 11) the wind occasionally abated. * ** 
The lightning also having ceased for a few moments only at a time, the 
blackness in which the town was enveloped) was inexpressibly awful. 
Fiery meteors were presentlyseen falling from the heavens ; one in pat- 
_ ticular, of a globular form and a deep red hue, was observed by the writer 
to descend perpendicularly from a vast height. It evidently fell by its 
specific gravity, and was not shot or propelled by an extraneous force. On 
: ‘approaching the earth with accelerated motion ‘it assumed a dazzling 
whiteness and an elongated form, and dashing to the ground in Beckwith 
Square, pesone the stores of Messrs. Hi. D. Grierson & Co. ta 
iancy and the spattering of its particles cpdaicallig sei _ gave it the 
resemblance of a body of me of — bulk.” © 
ee September, cag 
2. Oiserdiitions eats at Yale College on the Sekt of the Sun of 
September 18, 1838.—Communicated by Professor Ormsren. 
‘I was prevented, by peculiar circumstances, from making any prepara- 
tions for viewing the interesting eclipse of September 18th, having re 
turned home from a journey onlyon the day of its occurrence. I found, 
however, that there was less reason for regret, as two young gentlemen of 
our senior class, H. LL. Smith and E. P. Mason, had been very assiduous 
in making preparations for viewing the eclipse, having the necessary i- 
struments all in readiness, and the time well regulated. Indeed, each of 
them was furnished with a good telescope of his own making, the former 
a Gregorian of three feet focus,* the latter a Newtonian of seven feet. 
yal 
A. L. Smith and F. Bradley have recently compinicted a large tele- 
hich they have furnished me the following memorandum : The reflee- 
about fourteen feet and is one foot if diameter, of the 
stand and adjustments are not yet completed, nor 
