Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-04-05

! tnctly, in the Cumberland mountsins, when it
raued on and over the fire, and on neither side.
travelled Though the fire during the rain, and
VAS on both sides while it was raining. The
rain was soft and light, and the morning fair
North and South of the fire. Being on horse
back and sone, had, and took time 10 exam
inc the phenomena, in reference to Fspy's the.
ory-and view this theory Of storms us es'ah.
lished, and that OF producing rain as greatly ad-
vanccd"
Judge Brown says: "that on the Northern
border Of violent tornado, which passed
through Tennessee. there was violen, storm
Of hail and rain, with storm n. w. wind dri.
wing ob,qnely into the tornado On the South
side the wind blew strongly from the South.
without rain or hail.
Along with the hail fell a great quantity of
the green leaves of trees. and in many ins'an-
res branches or limbs which were covered with
n thick LAYER or coating of ice. much thicker
than in the heaviest seet Tho view Of hail
was abou, mile from the path Of the tornado.
on the North side"
Professor E.py concludes his circular with
the following:
INSTRUCTIONS TO OBSERVERS
In my Philosophy of Storms. from page 492
10 5ls are detailed many other facts Of simi.
lar nature. all going to show tha, rains may b"
produced in tiuc ot drought. II remains now
10 try tho principle On largo scnle. to see
whether il may not be used economically TO be.
neft mankind
From the investigation which have been a.
bic 10 make on this subject and on the nature
Of rains generally, it follows certainly that all
travel eastward from .he pace of beginning !;
and that rnins and SHOWS in the winter are Of
great length from north and south, and COM
parativcly narrow from rast To west, and oi
! course travel side forpmoL.* Several other CON
clusicns are rendered highly probable by these
I Investigations, but can only be made certain by
! future experiments.
| ] ct masses Of timber 10 the amount Of forty
acres Tor every twenty miles be prepared md
/ fired simultaneously every seven days in the
summer on the west nf the United States in n
, line Of six or seven hundred miles long from
north TO south, then the following results seem
highly probable, hut not certain until the tXppr.
imsnt is made A rain cf great length north
and south will commence near or on the line of
/ the fr,s; this rain will travel eastward it
! 4. oho, G. ,b A.,
lantic ocean it will rain only short time in
any one place it W II not rain again until the
nexth seventh day il will not rain enough and
not too much in any one place; ii Will not be al
tended with violent wind, neither on land nor
on the Atlantic ocean; there will be no ha'l
nor tornadoes OF the time OF the general rain,
nor intermediate there will be no destructive
| foods, nor will the waters ever become " ~
low 4; there will be no more oppressive heats
nor Injurious colds; the farmers and the mari.
ncrs will always know before the rains when
they will commence and when they will term'.
nate oil epidemic diseases, originating from
floods and subsequent dronghrs, will cease the
proceeds of agriculture will be greatly increa
sed. and the health and happiness of the citizens
will be much promoted. These, say. are the
probable mol csrtain-resulrs of the plan pro.
posed plan which could be carried into ope.
ration Tor 0 sum which would not amount To hall
n cent year to each individual in the United
States a plan which, If successful, would be-
nefit in a high degree not merely the mndsman
but every mariner that plies the Atlantic. II
this scheme should appear too gigantic TO com
menre WITH let the trial be first made along the
Allegheny mountains and let forty acres o -four
,en-Icre ius be ned every seven days through
the summer ~ each of the cnuntles OF Mexican,
Clea field, Cambria anu Somerset, IN Pennsyl-
vania Allegheny, in Maryland; and Hardy
rendleton, Bath, Allegheny, and Montgomery
IN Virginia The ten acre lots should te, ns
convenient, from one to four miles apart IN the
form of square; sn that the up-mnvng column
of air which shall be formed over them may
have wide base, and thus may ascend TO con
siderable height before it may be leaned out o
the perpendicular by any wind which may ex
isl at that time.
The summer rains at present are local, anC
ofvery limited extent and though they travr
towar rds the east. like the winter storms, they
are moi extensive enough to cover the Who'll,
country; hence, portions Of the country arc II
able to be psrched with drought and hot wea
, lhef.
Nav il not be possible that this iTreguarit,