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chiefly/on that side of the storm, at the very time it is falling 

 within! the storm, as it actually did in Connecticut and 

 Rhode| Island, while it was falling in Annapolis and Wash- 

 ington 1 city. Now if it should be found that the rise ex- 

 tended to Albany and Utica, the explanation of that re- 

 markable phenomenon mentioned before, of the wind's 

 blowing outwards in all directions from that region, it will 

 be acknowledged that this is the true explanation of it. 1 



If it should be found that the barometer did not rise at 

 these places, some other facts may yet be discovered to ex- 

 plain the anomaly. 



On the very great irregularities presented at Meadville 

 and Lexington, I have nothing entirely satisfactory to say. 

 In a storm of such great magnitude, many irregularities 

 might be expected. 



I have been told by those who have witnessed the phe- 

 nomenon from very lofty mountains, when it is raining in 

 the valley below them, that the top of the cloud, which 

 they could see spread out before them, did not exhibit a 

 level plain, but many pyramidal elevations were to be seen 

 rising considerably above the ordinary level. Now this 



1 Since writing this article, Matthew Webster, Esq., has given me the fol- 

 lowing Journal, from which it appears that the barometer actually rose on the 

 17th, as the theory seemed to indicate it should at Albany. 

 MARCH, 1838. 



