O. N. Stoddard on the Brandon Tornado. 79 
the assumptions are exaggerated. The most doubtful point is 
the amount of surface supposed to be presented to the wind by 
the limbs, &c. The estimate is believed to be a large one, as 
€ trees were at the time destitute of foliage. 
Other circumstances are not wanting to sustain this view of a 
high rate of velocity in the tornado. A mass of brick cemented 
together, 4 feet by 3 and 1 foot thick, containing at least 12 cu- 
bie feet, and weighing more than 1000 Ibs., was carried 15 feet 
tom the wall of a house. A board was driven inches into a 
Snarred oak stump. ‘The writer pulled a shingle from an oak tree 
half mile wide and 100 feet high, exerted a force equal to half 
; © steam power of the globe. More than 50,000 trees were pros- 
‘ated or broken by it in less than one half hour. 
temark ble for the number and violence of its tornados during 
the winter, It is important to state another fact in this connec- 
on. A southwest wind has prevailed to an unusual degree this 
Moving with the general current. ‘The writer has no t 
lendents of the Cincinnati and Columbus, and the H. and D. 
tailr is, Who generously tendered him a free ticket for more than 
300 miles of travel, 
