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ice, broken into small masses in its descent towards the earth. 
The damage done by the storm was proportional to its inten- 
sity : buildings were struck, persons and cattle killed by the 
lightning, the windows and glass coverings of hothouses were 
demolished, the trees stripped of their leaves and fruit, and 
the crops reaped and thrashed by the hail." Howard's com- 
ment upon this is the following : — (Lectures on Meteorology, 
p. 129, 130,) — " But what shall we make of those larger 
hailstones consisting of an opaque nucleus thickly covered 
with clear ice, or of bullets of the latter, which, borne 
horizontally, and falling at a great distance from their 
source, break the windows, disbranch the trees, reap the 
crops, and kill the game of a whole district, leaving the 
ground thickly covered with ice; or of those yet more 
terrible masses, like round shot or fragments of stone, 
which have attacked armies, killing in a few minutes 
thousands of men and horses, — can these be the drops of 
rain merely frozen in the act of falling from the clouds ? 
It is very probable, from circumstances, though it be beyond 
stripped them into ribands. We fortunately had a bullock's hide in the boat, 
under which we crawled and saved ourselves from further injury. One man of 
the three oarsmen had his hand literally smashed ; another much injured in the 
shoulder; and all more or less injured. A smaller kaick accompanied with my 
two servants. They were both disabled, and are now in bed with their wounds ; 
the kaick was terribly bruised. Balls of ice as large as my two fists fell into the 
boat ; and some of them came with such violence as certainly to have broken 
an arm or leg, had they struck us on those parts. One of them struck the blade 
of an oar and split it. The scene lasted may be five minutes I 
returned to the beautiful village of Buyukdere. The sun was out in all its 
splendour ; at a distance all looked smiling and charming, but a nearer approach 
discovered roofs covered with workmen repairing the broken tiles, desolated 
vineyards, and shattered windows. Two boatmen were killed in the upper part 
of the village, and I have heard of broken bones in abundance. Many of the 
thick brick tiles with which my house is covered are smashed to atoms. Imagine 
to yourself the heavens suddenly frozen over and as suddenly broken to pieces 
in irregular masses of from half a pound to a pound weight, and precipitated to 
the earth. My own servants weighed several pieces of three quarters of a 
pound ; and many were found by others of upwards of a pound. There were 
many which fell around the boat in which I was, that appeared to me to be as 
large as the swell of a large-sized water decanter." — Kitto, Note to Josh. a. 11. 
