﻿ARTICLE 
  XXVII. 
  

  

  Deductions 
  from 
  Observations 
  made, 
  and 
  Facts 
  collected 
  on 
  the 
  path 
  

   of 
  the 
  Brunswick 
  Spout 
  of 
  June 
  1 
  9th, 
  1 
  83 
  5. 
  By 
  James 
  P. 
  Espy, 
  Mem- 
  

   ber 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Philosophical 
  Society. 
  Head 
  April 
  1 
  5th, 
  1836. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  evidence 
  which 
  I 
  collected 
  during 
  five 
  days 
  which 
  I 
  spent 
  

   on 
  the 
  Brunswick 
  spout, 
  the 
  following 
  important 
  facts 
  are 
  clearly 
  

   established. 
  

  

  The 
  spout 
  was 
  suddenly 
  formed 
  about 
  seven 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  miles 
  west 
  

   of 
  New 
  Brunswick, 
  and 
  terminated 
  as 
  suddenly 
  at 
  Amboy, 
  about 
  

   seventeen 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  miles 
  from 
  where 
  it 
  began. 
  It 
  travelled 
  a 
  little 
  

   east 
  of 
  north 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  moderate 
  velocity, 
  probably 
  not 
  more 
  than 
  

   twenty-five 
  or 
  thirty 
  miles 
  an 
  hour. 
  It 
  appeared 
  to 
  all 
  persons, 
  in 
  what- 
  

   ever 
  direction 
  it 
  was 
  viewed, 
  in 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  an 
  inverted 
  cone 
  of 
  very 
  

   dark 
  cloud 
  or 
  smoke, 
  reaching 
  from 
  a 
  dark 
  cloud 
  above 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  

   earth. 
  

  

  It 
  prostrated 
  nearly 
  every 
  thing 
  in 
  its 
  path, 
  which 
  was 
  from 
  two 
  

   hundred 
  to 
  four 
  hundred 
  yards 
  wide 
  ; 
  the 
  trees 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  

   central 
  line 
  being 
  thrown 
  with 
  their 
  tops 
  towards 
  the 
  south 
  east, 
  and 
  

   those 
  on 
  the 
  south 
  of 
  this 
  line 
  with 
  their 
  tops 
  towards 
  the 
  north 
  east 
  ; 
  

   while 
  those 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  line 
  itself 
  were 
  thrown 
  nearly 
  towards 
  the 
  

   east, 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  the 
  spout 
  : 
  not 
  one 
  instance 
  being 
  found 
  of 
  

   the 
  trees 
  being 
  thrown 
  with 
  their 
  tops 
  outwards. 
  

  

  It 
  unroofed 
  the 
  houses, 
  prostrating 
  many 
  of 
  their 
  walls 
  outwards 
  as 
  

  

  