374 Observations on-a Hurricane in Ohio. 
track. - This remark does not apply to one part of the track exclu- 
sively, but was a general characteristic of the hurricane. Moreover, 
there was one spot near the house A, where the fences on each side 
of the road were blown into the road. 
We have then I think established that there were two powerful 
currents of wind blowing from the opposite side of the track ; that 
is, within a few rods of each other, and with such violence that the 
stoutest oaks fell before it. What then became of the air thus accu- 
mulated inthe centre? It must have some escape. Was this escape 
in a horizontal or vertical direetion? The evidence I think is suffi- 
cient to decide this question ; that there was a powerful current up- 
ward from the surface of the earth near the middle of the track, is 
proved by the objects which were actually elevated into the air. 
The house D was lifted directly from its foundations. The cart 
which was standing near the house was raised thirty or forty feet at 
the least calculation into the air. The feather bed upon which Miss 
Sanford was sleeping, was found next morning lodged in a tree nearly 
between the house and the barn, and at an elevation of forty feet 
from the ground. A coat which belonged to one of the men of the 
house was lodged also in the same tree. ‘The light articles which 
have been found in the neighboring towns, prove not only a horizontal 
current, but an ascending one sufficient to counteract the effects of 
gravity during several minutes. 
We have now established by a fair induction, that there was a 
powerful current of air from the opposite sides of the track towards 
some point in the centre of the track, and that here there was alsoa 
powerful current upward. What was the nature of this ascending 
current? Was it accompanied by gyration? This question I think 
we are able to answer. The furniture of the house D, was scattered 
in very various directions. ‘The house itself and the more substan- 
tial part of the furniture were carried in the direction of the barn; 
portions of the wagon however, lay strewed in every direction from 
east to northeast; leaves of books were found attached to bushes by 
the road in an east direction; a tin pail and various light articles 
were found in the woods opposite the house G, and in a direction 
S. E. from D; and a piece of a clock was found in a N. W. direc- 
tion from D, in the apple orchard. ‘The plough which was between 
the houses C and D, was obviously carried round nearly an entire 
circumference, for it left clear marks of its course on the ground. 
We find the same evidence of a gyral motion in the directions of the 
