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Arr. IIL.—Account of a Storm in New Hampshire, in a letter 
‘addressed to Prof. O..P. Hubbard, of Dartmouth College, 
- and dated, Newport, Aug. 20th, 1838; by Rev. Joun Woops. 
Dear Sir,—In yours of the 6th inst., you request me to for- 
ward you an account of a powerful torhado which occurred in 
Warner, some years since. The record which I made of it at 
the time, is not in a condition to be sent abroad ; but by a aid 
of it, the newspaper accounts of the day, which Ihave prese 
and my own recollection, I can furnish a pretty ‘correct aris 
which it will not be necessary you should return, | 
The event occurred about half past five o’clock, Shtondag eve- 
_hing, September 9th, 1821. The wind, I suppose, was a proper 
whirlwind, aaiiaalbe: such as occasion water-spouts at sea, A 
very intelligent woman in Warner,. who, at the distance of two 
or three miles, observed its progress, compared its appearance to 
a tin trumpet, the small end downward, also to a great elephant’s 
trunk let down out of heaven, and moving majestically along. 
She remarked, that its appearance and motion gave her a strong 
impression of life. When it had reached the easterly part of the 
town, she said the lower end appeared to be taken up from the 
earth, and to bend around in a serpentine form, until it - 
behind a black cloud and disappeared. Its course was south- 
easterly. It was attended with but little rain in some parts of 
_its course, more in others. The rain, or what appeared like it, 
was in my opinion taken from bodies of water which it passed - 
over. It was said, that it lowered the water in a small pond in 
Warner, about three feet. 'To people near Sunapee lake, in New 
was told, it appeared. as if the lake was rushing up to- 
wards, heaven, The appearance of the cloud to beholders at a 
little distance, was awfully terrific. It commenced its desolating 
progress east of Grantham mountain, in Croydon. In Wardell, 
_ beside other buildings, it demolished a dwelling house, and car- 
ried a child who was asleep upon a bed, into Sunapee lake.* In 
New London and Sutton it did a damage, but met 
with few dwelling houses and destroyed no lives. From —_ 
_* Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, editor of the Lady’s Book, a native of this town, (New- 
port,) and then a resident here, I believe, has published a little ye on this fact, 
which I think you may be able to find among some of her wri 
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