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6. Always, when the fires were large, the wind was 

 observed to be towards the fire from every quarter. When 

 the fires were raging on the mountains, and the wind was 

 blowing powerfully towards them from the point on the 

 side where I was, I recollect to have heard from the other 

 side of the mountain that the wind set strongly towards the 

 fire from that direction also, directly opposite in its course. 



7. The storms which followed these fires in the woods, 

 were generally the first in the season attended with thunder 

 and lightning, to any considerable extent. 



These facts are now written from memory. I believe 

 they may be depended upon as substantially correct. At 

 the time I observed them I had no idea of their connexion 

 with meteorology. So far as I knew they were not under- 

 stood by the inhabitants generally, as related to each other 

 as proximate cause and effect. I can now refer to several 

 scientific gentlemen in those counties, who would, I believe, 

 confirm the foregoing facts, independent of any consultation 

 with me, and without knowing that I have expressed these 

 few simple facts on paper. 



S. W. FULLER. 



Philadelphia, October 28, 1838. 



214. I arrived on Cote Blanche, in St. Mary's, on the 3d 

 of July last, arid was astounded at the appearance of almost 

 absolute sterility in every direction around me. Our man- 

 ager informed me, that there had been no rain since the 1st 

 of April. The corn was nearly destroyed, the late planting 

 was literally dead to the top. The corn had improved very 

 little for six weeks. Every thing wore the most gloomy 

 and desolate appearance. On the 4th and 5th, several of 

 the marsh Islands, lying in the Bay, twelve or fifteen miles 

 distant from Cote Blanche, became ignited, by the electric 

 fluid, and produced brilliant fires. The total absence of 



