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cloud and a sipnstnee and tremendous roar. é 
tornado seemed instantaneous, but the light of the cloud mee i ' 
ed for more than a quarter of an hour. Den B. was able to read 
in his Bible, which he found many rods from his house, at least 
ten minutes after the storm had passed. 
_ Judge Griswold saw the same phenomenon. 'The Soa 
peared to him funnel-shaped, apex downward, from which 4 k 5 
stream of fire apparently issued. ; a 
The appearance of the cloud, as here described, cor sy 
y well with the account of the Shelbyville tornado, as gi 
iis J ournal, Vol. xxx, p. 258. The cloud is said to have 
ntly luminous, and of the color of red hot iron. 
ndicate a continued flow of electricity from the clouds 
o the'e rth. The Stow hurricane is the only remé ne in 
he preceding list which occurred in the night, itd [have not ge Y 
> pete able to learn that any one cee pets the arte x of + Be 
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4 In this article I have indulged in no speculations on the 6 
oftive Mayfield tornado. This would require an investigation 
the general’ pheriometia of the storm which accompanied the to! 
nado. Jam collecting materials for such an investigation, as als 
of the storm of the 16th of the same month. I wish observati on 
from the Ist to 6th inclusive, and also from the 14th to the iets 
inclusive, for February, 1842. If any one has barometric 0! 
ons for this period and will forward them to me ano 5 
Be Boot a complete copy of all his other meteorological 
for the same interval, they will be. most | 
yr pose to’ give not only my own analysis: of th 
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