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the wind changing from north east to north, it continued to 

 rain hard at Baltimore, at three P. M., and only ceased at 

 four. Or as it rained a little on the 15th, at Brown Univer-. 

 sity, till twelve, did it spread outwards in all directions 

 from some centre? 



At Portsmouth, sharp lightning south east, at half past 

 eight, P. M. 



Storm of the 20th of May. This last appears to be the 

 character of a rain which occurred on the 20th of May, at 

 Silver Lake, 1 Pennsylvania. On this day, at one, P. M., a 

 violent thunder storm commenced, with hail from the west, 

 the day having been clear till that time. 



At Farmington, Connecticut, 2 a violent storm commenced 

 at four, P. M., and lasted till nine. 



At Flushing, a violent thunder storm began at five, and 

 lasted half an hour, preceded by a squall of wind from the 

 west, the wind having been all day west. 



At Brown's University, a light shower, with thunder and 

 lightning, from six to eight, P. M., wind south westerly all 

 day. 



At Philadelphia, about seven, P. M.,a strong wind com- 

 menced suddenly from the north west, it having been pretty 

 strong from the S. S. W. all day; at the same time when the 

 wind began to blow from the north west, the lower clouds 

 were coming from the south west, and the middle clouds 

 from the north west ; at eight o'clock it began to rain, 

 barometer rising .05 of an inch in an hour. There was 

 some thunder, but not much rain till some time in the 

 night. 



At Baltimore, it was clear on the 20th, at ten, P. M., and 

 did not begin to rain till late in the night, and it continued 

 showering the next day till a quarter past nine, P. M. 



1 Our correspondent is Dr. R. H. Rose. 



2 Our correspondent is Mr. James Porter Hart. 



