54 Prof. Loomis on Hail Storms. 
“You ask if it was possible that the larger stones could have 
been formed by the cementing or freezing together of several 
while lying on the ground? I should think it dmpossible that 
such could be the case. Furthermore the general opinion among 
the inhabitants is that each stone was a unit in formation.” 
The following is a copy of the affidavit of Mr. Libby already 
referred to. 
Warren, N. H., Aug. 24, 1853. 
I live in Warren and witnessed the hail storm on the L3th of 
August 1851, between the hours of one and two o’clock, P. M. 
I weighed a number of the hail stones which fell at that time, 
but not until after the shower had ceased—perhaps an hour and 
a half or two hours after. During this time it was very hot. 
The largest which I weighed was 174 ounces in weight. The 
others varied in the vicinity of apound. Iam fully in the be- 
lief that had they been weighed at the time of falling, their 
weight would have been some two or three ounces more. Pre- 
vious to weighing them I washed the dirt from them in water. 
They were very irregular in shape, somewhat scolloped, with ice 
projections from their surface. I picked these stones up from 
soft ploughed ground where they were imbedded more than half 
their size in the ground. During the time that the hail was fall- 
ing there was but little rain, with little or no wind. After the 
hail there was a warm rain of some ten or fifteen minutes du- 
ration. Joun Lippy. 
Sworn to before me, Jesse Lirrie, Justice of the Peace. 
The following is the statement of Mr. Flanders already re- 
ferred to. 
Wentworth, Aug. 30, 1853. 
I live in Benton, N. H., County of Grafton, and resided there 
at the time of the hail storm on the 13th of August, 1851. 
weighed a number of the hail stones after the rain was over: 
Granvitte E. FLANDERS. 
The following is the statement of Mr. Cleasby. 
Warren, N. H., Sept. 3, 1853. 
This certifies that several of the hail stones which fell here on 
the 13th of August, 1851, were measured by members of my 
family. According to my best recollection the circumference of 
the largest was fourteen inches one way and nine the other. 
eir form was very generally oval. Ezra W. Cveassy. 
