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left would illustrate the position of the trees first uprooted, as 
these lay as when first crushed by the approach of the whirlwind. — 
“Many curious facts illustrative of the force of the wind was 
"related by the inhabitants in and near the place, A farmer at- 
tempted to drive his team of horses to the barn, but the tempest 
was too soon upon him, When the rush was over, and it was 
but seemingly a moment, he found the barn torn to pieces, himself 
about thirty rods in one direction from it, and his horses as many 
tods the other, and what was most remarkable with scarcely a 
fragment of the harness upon them. A wagon was blown away, 
and a month afterwards one of the wheels had not been found. 
A house standing near the Genesee river, and a little out of the 
line of the gale, was completely covered with mud that must 
have been taken from the bed of the river. And appearances 
tender it very evident that near the centre of the whirl the water 
Was entirely taken from the channel.” 
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Arr. VIIL—On Meteoric Stones.*—F rom the Annual Account of 
the progress of Physics and Chemistry, by Berzexius, in the 
Annual Reports of the progress of the sciences by the members 
of the Royal Academy of Science in Sweden. 
Arsberittelser om Vetenskapernas Framsteg. D. 31. Mars, 1835. Stockholm. 
Translated for this Journal, by Rev. W. A. Larsen. : 
Merrorre stones, as inorganic masses occurring on the surface 
of the earth, present also an object for mineralogy, the more in- 
teresting since they give us information of the mineral products 
* © é . 
Berzeling published a paper on Meteoric Stones in the Transactions of the 
Royal A 
wart Stone at Blansko, and of its analysis, was published. in this Journal, 
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red entire. As a recent analysis of meteoric iron from Clairborne, Ala , by Dr. C. 
ys Jackson, publis pp. 332—337, made known the 
