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on the twenty-eighth of May, a remarkable storm raged, 
destroying the crops and beating down timber. 
Passing unobstructedly over so wide an extent, storms 
acquire icin violence in this country, and leave indelible 
marks of their ravages. 
One of the settlers, an intelligent white man, had sixty acres 
of oats destroyed, and told us that hail was thick enough, in 
some places, to be shovelled up. He said he measured some 
of the stones, and one was eight inches long and five in cir- 
cumference, a fact which I believe, as I saw limbs of trees and 
their trunks skinned and battered as if by a discharge of grape 
shot. We procured here a fine*hound to assist us in our 
catering when we got on the pales 3 
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prairie—covered as usual with a ‘beautiful case of ioonts-— 
where we found encamped a large party of emigrants, waiting 
for the subsidence of the waters of the Boggy, a stream more 
aptly named than pleasant to the traveller, They told us we 
could not cross, but we determined to make the attempt. 
This stream ran through a bottom, which, in time of high 
freshet, was entirely submerged, leaving, as the water receded, 
a road which, though called bottom, seemed to have that 
necessary ingredient in a passable road ‘entirely fallen out, or - 
at least Zao the race of men and animals found by that 
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