172 Lhe Tempest of Sept. 3d, 1821. 
terminated very abruptly, and passed ina very short time, 
from a hurricane to a serene and star light night. Near 
midnight a loud report was heard at the house of the wri- 
ter, as well as by the citizens, and it was observed that the 
wind ceased immediately after the report. The cause of 
this report is not known. 
Dr. Beck, (Vol. I. pa. 388, Am. Jour.) has given us.an 
interesting account of salt storms, and among them has enu- 
merated that of Sept. 23d, 1815, which we also witnessed. 
Both that tempest and the late one produced vast destruc- 
tion of life and property. It is not, however, our design to 
record those events, however interesting to benevolent feel- 
ings, but to advert to the effects produced by the late 
storm upon vegetation. 
The wind was without rain, till it had blown some hours, 
when water (then supposed to be rain,) was dashed against 
the windows with great violence. From the effects that 
were exhibited the next morning, there is great reasen to 
believe, that this was merely the spray of the salt water. 
For when the day light returned, the windows were found 
covered with salt, to such a degree that they were sensibly 
white, and the light was also sensibly obscured in its pas~ 
sage through them. It was necessary to wash them thor- 
oughly upon the outside. 
The trees soon exhibited a blasted foliage —in a few hours 
the leaves on the windward side beganto shrink and dry up— 
the trees appeared as if struck by a sudden and severe frost, 
or by heat, or lightning, and in a few days the dry leaves fell, 
and were carried about by the wind in great abundance, and 
the trees, in the second week of September exhibited the ap- 
pearance which they ordinarily do in the latter part of No- 
vember. The evergreens alone—among trees—escaped, 
and even they, when situated within a few yards of the sea 
shore, were blasted. The cherry trees—the pears, the 
elms, and the willows, were particularly affected. 
Now, (October 10) more than a month after the tempest, 
the weather having been generally mild—the trees exhibit, 
in part, the appearance of spring. On the windward side, 
new leaves have appeared—they are particularly verdant 
and beautiful on the willow, the lilac, the locust, and the 
elm, and possess a freshness which probably, on account of 
novelty and contrast, appears almost superior to that of 
