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PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



If the reader will examine the documents, he will per- 

 ceive that in the State of New York, the wind was westerly 

 and north westerly, and that in Maine, New Hampshire, 

 and the eastern part of Massachusetts and Nantucket, the 

 wind was violent from the north east. How far the storm 

 at that time reached into the Atlantic, our observations do 

 not inform us. One thing, however, we are able to deter- 

 mine that the region of observation on this day, was the 

 northern end of the storm, and it appears plain that the 

 middle line reached from Vermont down through Rhode 

 Island into the ocean, and that on each side of this line, the 

 wind was blowing towards the line with few excep- 

 tions, in the middle region. Let the reader now consider 

 that there had been an immense mass of snow falling for 

 more than twenty-four hours at this time at some places, 

 for example, Woonsocket, some distance south west from 

 Boston, 3.5U inches of water, and that during all this time, 



