Prof. Loomis on the Hail Storm of the first of July, 1853, 41 
in the city of New York, the damage done by the hail was not 
very great ; for the stones were not numerous, although of pro- 
digious size. The ship-yard of Mr. Thomas Collyer at the Dry 
Dock, was covered with singularly shaped pieces of ice,—one of 
which was measured and found to be 64 inches in circumference 
—another seven inches, and a third measured three inches long, 
and two inches thick. 
{n Williamsburgh the hail appears to have destroyed more glass 
than in New York. In many houses nearly half the glass was 
broken in windows which were unprotected on the north side. 
Over 400 panes of glass were broken from the north side of a 
single school house. 
after the storm had abated. At Norristown and Doylestown the 
crops were much injured by the hail, and at Burlington, N. J., 
the wind was exceedingly violent. 
It is not probable that either of these storms was the same as 
that which passed over New York. ‘The hail-storm near Phila- 
delphia, was about simultaneous with that at New York. The 
storm at Northumberland may have been identical with that at 
Upper Dublin, the distance of the places being 100 miles—the 
interval of time 24 hours—and the direction nearly parallel with 
the track of the New York storm: 
t would appear that a violent wave of great extent set in from 
the northwest, which rolled over both New York and Philadel- 
phia; and within this wave were formed about simultaneously 
several distinct veins of hail. 
as the storm which passed over New York a whirlwind? 
[have surveyed every part of the track of the storm where I 
have heard of any violent effects, especially with reference to the 
decision of this question. Throughout Wilhamsburgh, I could 
nd no unequivocal evidence of rotation. The steeples which 
Were prostrated, fell in a direction coinciding very nearly with 
that of the storm’s progress, that is, towards the sontheast. In _ 
the case of one of the churches whose steeple was blown down — 
Stcoxn Suuis, Vol. XVII, No. 49.—Jap, 1864. ee 
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