Petechia and Hemorrhage, ■without Fever. 53 



lent arterial action existed. The atony of the capillary 

 vessels was, probably, effected by the discharc;es from 

 the bowels. 



Mercersburgh, May 2Ath, 

 1805. 



VI. Some Account of the Great Hurricane of 1804. 

 In a letter from Dr. Tucker Harris to Dr. W. 

 CuRRiE. Communicated to the Editor by Dr. 



CURRIE. 



I SHALL now mention some of the effects of 

 the late gale of wind on the vegetable creation. During 

 the storm, it was said that the rain which fell had a 

 saline taste ; and, in fact, there is reason to believe, 

 that the spray of the sea-water, by the violence of the 

 wind, was carried entirely across the narrow isthmus 

 of land, on the lower part of which Charleston stands. 

 This neck extends about six miles; and, so far, the 

 hardy ever- green pine-trees, to their very tops, felt the 

 effects ; for their leaves, to the eastward, turned brown, 

 as if burnt or scalded by the brine. The deciduous 

 trees, especially the fruit kind, such as peaches, pears, 

 apples, plumbs, cherries, and mulberries, though in 

 full foliage, wherever exposed to the " peltings of the 

 pitiless storm," were deprived of their leaves; but a 

 fresh vegetation, and blossoms, soon followed. The 

 Savannah locust, as it is called here, was anew cloth- 

 ed in green, and blossomed : a circumstance never ob- 

 served before, at this season, in regard to that tree. 



