Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-03-19
VOL. XII, NO. 1S.--WHCLE NO ook7

SiV"'uo, "Vi' Iu ule pam OF the storm and both
these hills are filled with iron ore, and thousands of
tons are mined out and strewed upon the surface.
Comparing time with the distances Of the local.
tiles have named from each other, and the whole
with the two extremes designated I find tba, the
storm was about seven or eight hours in travelling
from that part of Lake Ontario opposite Cobourg
to Shorehan, on Lake ChampIain, in Vernon, ~
distance of 3 or 400 miles, The storm followed
the mineral stratas which underlay the surface, in
stead of going the shortest route.
When surveyed the path of this terrific temp
est from the mountain top and behed its track a
ruin and complete that not single tree is left
standing as witness of exemption, and those that
lay PROSTATE, thrown promiscuously every way in
great confusion, upon the ground, and reckoned up
that more than forty buildings were DESTROYED and
no human being killed, was reminded that he who
fired the storm also guided it, In the wilderness
where human habatons are few and far nsunder
TINS storm was most active, and there allowed TO
try its strength. Thousands of acres of heavy tim
bercd land are swept of every tree-thc forest was
moved down by the mighty wind as mower laws
PROSTATE the standing grass or the reaper gathers
with his sickle the ripened grain.
Had this terrific tempest visited the metropolis
of this great State as it did its wilderness, what
ruin and what destruction would have been d.,
witnesses of the awful visitation?
In wilderness explorations have, in several in
stances, come upon the pathway of the tornado
upon the broken forest trees piled in winrows for
miles in extent lcngthways, but of a width quite
limited. The ruin record is instructive; the POSI-
ton of the PROSTATE trees designate from which
point Of compass the storm ragged the extent of its
force and the distance it travelled while It's blasts
were furious In the wild woods, where silence is
impressive, the traveller finds in these records n
subject for meditation as well as contemplation.
These timber ravines, in process of time, become
very dry and combustible and, while in that state,
hoo bod L.. A.
flames follow the tornado path with a rapid march
end terrific roar. Thus changes are often produ.
ced in the distant forests that in after times fill the
mind of the traveller, in exploring the surface with
wonder and surprise. During previous visit to
these same mountains, in the month of May, of the
present year, fire was ascending the sides of one
Of the lofty peaks. The scene was awfuly i'm
pressive. A mountain forest wrapped in flames.
and the flames ascending above the clouds, is a
most imposing spectacle. had seen vast pra-
RTE in flames, where the march of the fire was more
rapid than the t1eetest race-horse and had also
seen the destructive confagration in the city of n.
York in 1875 and in 1915 bat neither compared
with the impressVeness Of the scene here narrated
OF majestic mountain wrapped in one vast sheet
of flame. Rocks were broken by the heat and roll
led down into the valleys below from lofty beds in
which they had reposed from the commencement of
period long anterior to the flood, and those which
were ca!carcous were calcined, and mingled their
hydrates with the ashes ofthe wood and this COM
bination was washed away by the succeeding rains.
and thus formed the commencement of another
change. The frost has followed this visitation Mt
a distance; but when it shall have done its work,
the warmth OF summer will succeed and thus
changes follow changes, to such extent that it is
difficult to Judge from the present appearance of
the surface OF our earth, what it once was The
lightning, the present year, has been extremely ac
tive, and the arctic ice abounded in every month up
on the Atlantic from March to November both in
elusive, and terrific storms are the offsprinps of
such union. On the goth of October. encoun-
tered n snow-storm upon the White Face Peak of
the Adirondack mountains. The dav previous n
snow-storm was experienced upon the mountains in
South Western Virginia; and at the same time a
thunder and lightning storm raging upon the
mountains of the State of Georgia upon the sac-
ceedng day, snow fell upon the Adirondack noun
ains, and on the day following the temperature fell
TO ii degrees. Snow fell that day at Montreal. and
the next day the Great Western steamer encoun-
tered snow storm on the Atlantic, in lat. 1926.
long. SOD; the temperature of the air was then
30 deg, and the temperature of the ocean IS deg,
which was degrees higher for the water than the
day previous.
The storm, the track of which have laid down,
have said was from so to to 100 rods in width
Ihls is the width of the path at and near Union
Fails; at other places it was wider it eypanded
and again contracted frequently during the entire
route, and IN It's narrowest path it was most de-
strnctiye.
The pathway of this tempest, and its slowness OF
motion, compared with the recent cold chance at
New Orleans on the 9th of November, presents a
contrast. Ice formed at New Orleans on the night
of the 9th November, while at New York, at
O'clock in the afternoon of that day, the tempera
ture was 80 deg. During the night the tempera
ture fell to "a deg, being n change of % degrees
Thus the cold traversed from New Orleans to New
York in a single night but we have another illus
traton that prese nts the converse of the last. A
st Louis, on Sabbath morning, the Both Novem
Der, and Monday morning, the 1st December, the
cold was intense, and was down to Zero, while a
New York, the temperature was above 33 degrees
from o'clock, Sabbath morning, the i0th Novem
Der, to o'clock, Monday morning. the LIST Decem
4 Der.
! During the terrific thunder storm which passed
New York on the night of the 10Th of February, o
| the present year, the ground was covered will
snow, and the temperature of the air was at 10 de-
grees.
The thunder storm which passed New York the
25th of April Of the last year, at the time the Bow
cry Theatre was burning commenced at a small
creek near Alexandria, ID. c., between and 6 o.
clock in the afternoon, and reached the Bay of Fun.
day about ten o'clock that evening. This lightning
storm was active in several places on its route, de
stroying human life, burning buildings, and doing
other damage. Il. merriam.
TO prerem The return of The disease in Potatoes
The Board of Trade in Holland has published
the following rules to be observed as Il preventive
ofthc potatoe diseases 1t is necessary to beware
OF planting those plants which have been attacked
by the disease. They must be carefully chosen
from those whose stalks have not been attacked
and placed IN situation free from the slightest
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