Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-12-28

region. Of the atmospbcre. ~ "s 'n
-. ao"' inc warmer air in which
."c ."Po was suspended mixing sud.
ofair. Hail Is scnerany ss6n.t ''ent
frozen rain; but it differs frr i'm 10 be
this, that the hailstones are not foofc I'D
Of single pieces Of ice, but ofsnall par
,icies agglutinated together, some of
which are very hard, like perfect ice,
while others are soft AS snow, or rescm-
bic snow that has been hardened By
frost. When hailstones are broken
open, or cut across, they are sometimes
within found to be Of spongy struc-
.ure sometimes the Interior presents a
very beautiful radica'ed appearance.
and not unfrequently EXHIBITS regular
and very remarkable cNcentric plates.
Generally, the centre oithc hallstone
is harder than its surface,,nd occasion.
ally presents US with a nu@cus. Or sort
Of core, Embedded in WITCH, bits of
straw, wood, aud earth, ,ave been
found; substances which NAV be
presumed were elevated froLthe sur
face Of the earth by the acti& of the
viii rIwind, or some similar .eteor.
liaiistones vary much in shape they
are generally oval or round, but ,me.
times thin, fiat, irregular glohula'an-
gular, pyranidaI, occasionally irr.u
lar, having central point whence p.
coed numerous icy spIcnl@, like RS
in all directions; and. also, althoua
more rarely, they have appeared as 81
sided prisms. \ few years ago, a ire
mendous storm occurred at CLIQUE.
tcrsl.irc, the most rem. .rkable circum
stance attending which, was the ha
shower by which it wa. accompanied
"!t may be doubted" says the Athe
nHum '.whcther such a name as ha
be apple able, for the masses Of iC
which fell in places where the stor1
most f;er"eiy tagged, bore no resen
blance Of hailstones III magnitude {
formation, most of them being Of IA vel
irregular shape. broad, fiat. and ra,
ged, and many measuring nine inch,
in circumference; they appeared lik
fragments Of "a vast plate Of ice broke
toto small masses by its descent TOW
ards the earth" On the 4th of Jun
IN the year, 1914. hail fell at Cincinn
Il. Ohio, the pieces OF which are de
cribed. in the account read to the Lite
ary and Philosophical Society Of Ne
York, as having seen apparently ga,
yregatcd of numcUus others. whiC
we're likewise c. mpo ed ofsmaller one
while some Of more tan ordinary sig
appeared single, as itthey had bee
snow balls immersed iLwater, and r,
frozen"
Naiistones vary considerably in siz
from that Of nullet see to that
pigeons ecg-the smallc.oenerall
falling in the more northern. Innate
the largerin the south Of Europ Hal
stones have fallen in Scotland hic
have been found to weigh five olce.
in North America they have v
picked up Weighing fifteen ounces !
in Oct. ), 1881, one fell at Constan
op,e which weighed more than pou
81 had long refused observes Vol
in his View Of the Climate. &
America, "to credit the existence
those hailstones said to weigh ouD
and even pounds. of which newsPaI
ard travellers too frequently spt
But the storm ofthe 18th Of July
affords me the conviction of my
senses. / was at Ponchartrian.
miles from Versailles; and going to
sheep-walk at six O'Clock in
morning. found the rays Of the
intolerabIv scorching; the air
calm and suff,Cating, that is, ii wa
fremely rarefied; the sky was wit
acloud. vet heard four or five {
Of thunder. About a quarter ;
seven. a cloud appeared in the SC
west. and then very brisk wind Al
In a few minutes, the cloud tillet
horizon. and speeded toward the
ith with an increase of the wind
a hail storm suddenly came on
stones not falling perpendicular,
at an angie Of forty-hvc degrees.
;" large that you would have
them for the pieces Of mortar Of a
fallen down. could not believ
own ewes many Of the stone we're /
than "A mans fist, and l observed
that several of these were only
ment> oflarger pieces. When |
safely venture my hand out OF the