250 Mr. RedfielcPs Second Reply to Dr. Hare. 



knew. Thirty five years ago, some eight or ten* individuals be- 

 gan to labor in this country in the great cause in which we are 

 engaged. It has flourished beyond our most sanguine expecta- 

 tions, and we now behold around us, or we recognize in all our 

 states, a numerous corps of well instructed, zealous and active 

 geologists. 



Upon this happy result, while I congratulate the Association, 

 my emotions of pleasure are chastened by the recollection that 

 among our attending members on the present occasion, I stand 

 in this place almost the sole representative of the original corps 

 of American geologists — one half of whom are gone to that land 

 from whose bourne no traveller returns. Maclure, Mitchill, 

 GiBBs, Bruce, and Seybert are among the dead. 



Gentlemen, let us not forget that our labors must also have an 

 end ; and when we too shall have reached our goal, may we be 

 cheered onward by a well founded hope, that this tangible earth 

 which we now see and explore, may be exchanged for the heaven 

 of our faith and hope — that glorious world whose very atmos- 

 phere is moral purity and love, and whose cloudless firmament 

 glows with the light of eternal truth. 



Art. II. — Reply to Dr. Hare's further Objections relating to 

 Whirlwind Storms ; With some Evidence of the Whirling 

 Action of the Providence Tornado of August, 1838 ; by W. 

 C. Redfield. 



In my Reply to the objections and strictures of Dr. Hare,f I 

 attempted to show that these could have no weight or efficacy in 

 disproving the whirlwind character of violent storms and torna- 

 does, and that good evidence of whirlwind action in the tornado 

 of New Brunswick was afforded by those very facts which he 

 had set forth as disproving its rotation. 



Having corrected the errors into which my opponent had fallen, 

 I also referred to additional proofs of rotation which had been 

 afforded by this tornado. This was deemed sufficient in replying 



* Maclure, Gibbs, Mitchill, Bruce, Cleaveland, Gilmer, Hayden, Hall, (Fred.), 

 Silliman. 



t This Journal, Vol. xm, April, 1842. 



