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with wind E. N. E., violent till half past ten, A. M. The 

 wind changing to east at eleven, blew less violently, and 

 was S. S. E., at one P. M. nearly calm ; the lower clouds 

 south. The wind was south at half past three, P. M., strong 

 on the 6th, the wind moderating a little. The rain ceased 

 at noon ; very little in the afternoon. 



At Flushing, Long Island, N. Y. On the 4th, the 

 wind rose at half past ten, P. M., north east, having been 

 gentle in that direction for two days. It was very high the 

 next morning in the same direction, at a quarter past seven; 

 at quarter past twelve was very high from the east; at half 

 past three brisk from the south east, and at six high from 

 the south west. Rain commenced with thunder, at half past 

 eleven, A. M., and with some intermission ended at two, 

 P. M. 



At Baltimore. On the 4th of May, at half past three, 

 P. M., a nimbus rose from the west, against a strong south 

 east wind ; it burst at four, with thunder and lightning, 

 and rained nine tenths of an inch. 



104. Storm of May 15th, 1835. Norfolk, 1 Virginia. On 

 the morning of the 15th, there was a great rain, ending 

 at twelve o'clock. At Philadelphia, all that morning there 

 was a strong wind and lower clouds from north, and upper 

 clouds from S. S. W., continuing till four, P. M., when the 

 clouds disappeared. During the same morning, at Brown 

 University, the wind was north east ; with misty rain till 

 twelve. 



At Flushing, the same morning, the wind was high from 

 the north east, the lower clouds from the north east, the 

 middle from the north, and the upper from the west, and at 

 Cincinnati, 1 Ohio, south west. 



This rain seemed to have travelled south, for it ceased to 

 rain at Philadelphia on the 14th, at half past twelve ; with 



1 From the newspapers. 



