DECEMBER STORM. 



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[Waterville College, (Me.) by George W. Keely.] 



14th. Sunrise, cloudy. Do. during most of the day. Corona round 

 the moon at 8, P. M. 



15th. Sunrise, clouded, snowing; very little snow falls; a very little 

 falls at times during the day. 



]6th. Strong wind during past night, and considerable snow fallen; 

 snow falls during most of forenoon, then ceases; perhaps in the whole 

 five inches fallen, much drifted. Evening wind, N. N. E. 



[From J. Steeper, Esq., Editor of Boston Evening Journal.] 



DEAR SIR, I have learned to day, that the ship Robin Hood, was 

 out in the gale of the 15th December, 1839, to the eastward of the south- 

 ern point of Nova Scotia, say 300 miles off. The gale was tremend- 

 ously heavy there, and the ship was near foundering ; wind from the 

 eastward. 



38. At Concord, N. H., Mr. M. G. Thomas. At 5, A. M., of 15th, 

 the ground was covered with snow; wind varying from E. to N. At 

 noon, strong N. E. ; and in P. M., wind very violent from N. of N. E. 

 On 16th, strong most of the day, and abated N. ; snow twenty inches 

 deep by night. 



39. At Springfield, N. H., Mr. J. Nevins gives the wind during the 

 whole day of 15th, a little N. of E., and the same on 16th ; and he says 

 the wind was very strong, throwing the snow into heaps. Commenced 

 snowing very fast at 4, A. M. of 15th, continuing till night of 16th. 



At Smithtown, Long Island, near the middle, Mr. Mills gives the wind 

 N. E., with snow in the morning, N. W. in the afternoon, with a clear- 

 ing up. Snow two feet deep, much drifted. 



40. At Burlington, Mr. Thompson by Mr. E. Mills, P. M., gives the 

 wind all day the 15th, N. E., and on 16th, N., with snow all day the 15th 

 and morning of 16th, wind not strong enough to drift the snow materi- 

 ally on 14th. Wind N. W., 0.73 inches of water fell. 



41. At Bennington, Mr. J. Hunt says, on 15th, snow, wind N. W. 

 16th. snow, wind N. W., snow twenty inches deep. There was but lit- 

 tle wind. And Mr. Kellog says, on the 15th, the wind was N. W., very 

 gentle, and snow fell during the storm, two feet deep. 



