333 M1TCHILL ON THE TERRIBLE SNOW STORM IN 1811. 



during the storm in search of a more secure place, and froze to death 

 on the road. 



" The fine schooner Maria Louisa, Stowell, bound from this port for 

 Bordeaux, was driven ashore at Gardner's-Island, about twenty miles 

 from New-London, and has bilged. The crew and passengers con- 

 sisted of twenty-two souls, eighteen of whom were very much frozen, 

 and three were dead, when the last accounts were received from her." 



Thirty-six of these bilged, stranded, and wrecked vessels, were 

 counted in one day. 



The Boston newspapers noticed this violent storm as having com- 

 menced on the morning of Tuesday the 24th, at 4 o'clock. The wind 

 blew from the points between north northeast, and northwest. It con- 

 tinued with extreme severity until the morning of the 25th. Though the 

 wind was so vehement, and the weather intensely cold, there were few 

 disasters on the ocean side ; because the ships and vessels had plenty of 

 sea-room. Yet the schooner Greyhound, from Baltimore to Boston, 

 was forced ashore in the Vineyard Sound by the storm, where part of 

 the crew escaped to land, and the rest perished on board. 



The transition from warm to cold, was very fatal to animal life. 

 In many instances human beings perished, on land as well as on the 

 water. Domestic fowls suffered extremely. Sheep, in many instances, 

 perished. Neat cattle also were overcome by the intensity of the 

 cold, in many instances. Guinea-hens were particularly destroyed by 

 the frost. 



At Plandome, on the north side of Long-Island, twenty-five miles 

 east of New-York, Singleton Mitchill, Esq. observed that the 23d De- 

 cember was a warm and pleasant day, with a southerly wind. About 

 midnight it suddenly shifted to the northwest, and blew so furiously that 

 almost every vessel caught between Hell-Gate and Montauk Point was 

 driven ashore. The snow began about one o'clock on the morning of 



