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4nd Evans of the Marietta College, and Dr. J. 
Meteorological Journal of Marietta, Ohio. 253 
TEMPERATURE, AND REMARKS ON THE SEASONS. 
times as low as twenty-six degrees. The first week in January 
. was the coldest of the winter, the temperature being below 
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Was in the rivers that fall into the Ohio, on the north side, as the 
Scioto, Muskingum, Beaver and Alleghany. The southern afflu- 
ents were not very high, or the water would have equalled that 
of 1832. But little amage was done below Marietta, which, 
At this town the water was four feet below the flood of 1882, 
but twelve inches higher than any other one. 3 
Treat meteor of May, 1860.—On the first day of May, about 
twenty minutes before one o'clock, P. M., a tremendous explo- 
“on was heard at Marietta, like the discharge of a piece of heavy 
artillery, the sound coming from the north. It was found to 
pilace about fifty miles north of Marietta, and twenty east of 
hesville. Its course with a description of the accompanying 
Phenomena has been given in this , ene by Profs. Andrews 
L. Smith; th 
d last named gentlemen having personally visited the locality 
AM. Jour. Sc1.—Seconp Sunims, Vou. XXXI, No. 92—Manc, 1861. 
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