62 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



Montreal, May 15th. A larger quantity of rain has fallen 

 here since midnight of last Friday, (five days,) than we 

 have had for a considerable period past, and the rain is 

 now falling in torrents, the atmosphere cool and very un- 

 pleasant. 



The Goshen Patriot says, the Delaware rose twelve feet 

 above an ordinary freshet not a raft above Milford was 

 preserved entire. 



These facts afford conclusive evidence that, in this case 

 at least, the wind at Philadelphia blew hard for five days, 

 exactly towards one of the greatest rains which our country 

 has ever witnessed. And the statement, that the atmos- 

 phere at Montreal was cool and very unpleasant, would 

 lead us to suppose that the wind there was coming from 

 some northern quarter; for, during this whole period, the 

 temperature was very high in Philadelphia, the mean mini- 

 mum being 65, and the mean maximum 76, and if a 

 southern wind prevailed there, it is not at all likely that 

 the air would have been cool and unpleasant. 



Again, from the 3d of June, 1835, to the 12th of the same 

 month, the wind was constantly from the north, with one 

 exception from north east, pretty strong for a considerable 

 portion of time. 



I find by the Charleston Courier, that a dreadful storm 

 of rain set in there on the 3d, arid another very violent one 

 on the 8th, which was increasing when the paper went to 

 press on the 9th at 10 P. M., and that on that day there had 

 been no mail from Fayetteville, and that there were six letter 

 mails due from New York and Boston, and five from Wash- 

 ington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. 



All these facts seem utterly at variance with a horizontal 

 whirlwind ; and entirely consistent with an upward vortex, 

 if they do not absolutely prove one. 



88. If Mr. Redfield should perceive that all the interest- 

 ing facts which he has with such laudable industry collected, 



