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cally formed, with beautiful outline. Hail- 

 stones in India are said to be very large from 

 five to twenty times larger than those in Eng- 

 land or America seldom less than walnuts 

 and often as large as oranges and pumpkins. 

 It is recorded that in 1826, during a hailstorm 

 at Candeish, the stones perforated the roofs 

 of houses like cannon shot, and that a single 

 mass fell that required several days to melt, 

 weighing over 100 pounds. It is further re- 

 corded that on May 8, 1832, a conglomerate 

 mass of hailstones fell in Hungary a yard in 

 length and nearly two feet in thickness. Still 

 another instance is recorded of a hailstone 

 having fallen in 1849 of nearly twenty feet in 

 circumference. This hailstone is said to have 

 fallen upon the estate of Mr. Moffat of Ord. 

 We will only ask our readers to listen to one 

 more hailstone story, in which it is related 

 that during the reign of Tippoo, sultan, a hail- 

 stone fell as large as an elephant. Undoubt- 

 edly one of two things was true regarding this 

 latter story; it was either a very large hail- 

 stone or a very small elephant. The historian 

 fails to give the size of the elephant. There 

 is no doubt, however, but that hailstones may 

 adhere and form large masses owing to the 

 violent agitation of the elements that always 

 attends a hailstorm. 



Hailstorms are almost universally attended 

 by constant and heavy thunder and lightning, 



