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larly noticed that these showers did not fall perpendicularly, 

 bat both sloped inwards towards the spout below. 



184. On the 13th September 1835, a tornado ravaged the 

 commune of Caux. Its march was from the S. W. to N. E. 

 tearing down trees and overturning houses. It carried off 

 all the water of a pond arid all the fishes which it contained, 

 and threw them down a league and a half from there, to 

 the great astonishment of the persons who witnessed this 

 ichthyological rain. (Peltier sur Trombes, p. 42.) 



185. In a tornado which ravaged the environs of Carca- 

 sonne, on the 3d of November. 1780, as it passed over a 

 chateau, it furrowed and raised up the pavements of some 

 of the apartments, and in another chamber this effect was 

 produced only in the centre, and in the same chamber piles 

 of china ware placed around were undisturbed. Large 

 stones were transported to the roof of the chateau, and a 

 large tree was left on the roof of a peasant's house. The 

 tornado was preceded and followed by no rain at Leiic, but 

 at the place where it commenced, and also at the village of 

 Villarbe, there fell a great flood of rain. (p. 48.) 



186. On Good Friday, 1666, there fell a great quantity of 

 little (merlans) sea fish, of the size of the little finger, in a 

 field at Cranstead, near Wrotham, in the county of Kent. 

 This place is distant from the sea, and from any large piece 

 of water. At this moment there was a great tempest, ac- 

 companied by thunder and rain. (p. 75.) 



187. Some of these meteors have been known to encoun- 

 ter ships in their march, and then the column of water 

 which constituted them, and which had just risen from the 

 sea, instead of continuing to rise, flowed down on the ship ; 

 such is the fact related by Capt. Melling, of Boston ; and in 

 this case it fell in such abundance that it was with diffi- 

 culty the captain preserved himself from being washed 

 overboard. He states that the water which entered his nose 

 and mouth was entirely sweet and fresh ; and all sailors 



