36 Prof. Loomis on the Hail Storm of the first of July, 1853. 
found several handfuls of hailstones of good size, though -alto- 
gether inferior to those which I saw in the street. They gen- 
pieces of ice, which individually did not much exceed the size of 
hazel nuts—but they were cemented very firmly together. In- 
deed there was no appearance of seams or joints between these 
individual portions—but the ice was equally strong throughout 
every part of the mass. Their structure therefore did not indi- 
cate that several small hailstones were seperately formed and 
were subsequently cemented together; but rather that all were 
formed simultaneously about a common nucleus. Several per- 
sons independently, and without concert, suggested that the con- 
glomerated mass resembled rock-candy: and the comparison ap- 
inches. These had been lying several minutes in a warm 
drenching rain; and itis my full conviction that two or three of 
those which I saw in the street were three and a half inches 
long, by two anda half inches wide, and they did not appear to 
deviate much from the spheroidal figure. A friend of mine, who 
is by profession a painter, and who saw and handled the hail 
than many which we saw fall. _ 
he rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, continued 
for six or eight minutes, when its violence somewhat. abated—it 
returned again with renewed energy, but soon afterwards entire- 
ly ceased. Another, but more moderate shower followed half an 
hour later, yet without either hail or lightning. 'Thronghout the 
entire storm, the wind had blown with considerable force, but 
not with destructive violence, in that part of the city which is 
southwest of the University ; and in the lower part of the city 
there was comparatively little win 
