The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-01-25

short time previous, and in which persisted the Of
reoay reierIed TO- no one was particularly desiI
crossing II; and so we TO the conclusion to Ian
mo beach But even there, the surf was still high
we were nsce ssiated TO lay on our oars until the
10 our Ga"s On No 'ns Who By the BY
nifty to earn "dp" II were superluous 10 stssr
description Of tho feeling one experiences while si
10 ono OF the natives canoes Let II suffice 10 ~
found Il most singular mingling Of pleasure A.
fear Of being upset at the same time. thereby DOC
most ladicrous expression Of eountenancs inf
and rendering it, indeed, a dinhculty to say WI 70
predominant emotion, judging from the ndicaP'
solute terror in the eyes caused by actual PER-
face created by the pleasurabls CONSEQUENCES of
stable equilibrium. For my own part, found II ex
svsly aborious to keep my position and of the nsc
~ OF doing which could not be convinced by my I'll
Tipped CharoD, and his repeated Injunction Of hloo
massa capsizee, and which, in truth, only did learn
nearly fulfilling his half uttered prediction, and BY
sizing in reality At all events the party were SAN
deposited upon the beach by the Kroemen who mans
their canoes with peculiar and almost surprising dsxt
winding path through the brushwood PA.
WHAT CAUSED THE GREAT FLoep AT THE WIS
What wa would now call the readers attg
food. in the valley Of the Ohio. These causes al
greatly increased fall Of water in the month Of Dsc
per, attendant upon higher average temperature.
have before us the Meteorological Table for the month
December, kept by DIR. Ray, OF Woodward CoItVl
The facts there stated explain in the fullest manns
cause Of the present foods which have sxten}
through the Ohio valley, and probably through
greater part Of the United States The winter Of
was comparatively cold and dry, while the present
tables that the past month Of December wss seven
grees in average temperature warmer than the avsrs
temperature Of the month in the past twelve yea
and that its average temperature was fifteen dsgr(
warmer than that Of December, lsl5. The result
been an enormous fall Of water In the last six wse
This descent Of water is quite remarkable. DR.. u
finds that in the month Of December Just past the isl
rain, and Of snow, melting il fell, was equal to
pendic ular height of IS inches or more than thj
quarters OF q foot. This il three times the R1n}
which fell last December and above the hRhes ii
Of any month in the last twelve years! II is tbou(v
fourth the entire average amount Of the entire "
The amount of min which fell At Steubenvills In
year la4b wes 80 inches II ia that the rain VII
fell hore in December about one.iourth that anne
Not only this, but the LIST of January It rainsd bel
ly. and on the Alb CMopday) very large quantity
commencing on the Let Of Dscsmber. and tha
has fallen at least twelve inches psrpepdicu]
OF rain, or ons.third the amount for = zeal. q
slider the effect OF foot of water perpendicul
~ spread on the entire surface Of tho Ohio Valley
having to hnd outlet within FIVE wcekE. The on
Valley about 1000 miles in length, by 300 miles
to the Ohio. This gives three hundred thousand ssu|
miles, and each square mile will have received on
surface no less than twenty seven million, six humid
and seventy eight thousand. four hundred cubic ies
water! The Ohio river averages not more than hal
mile in breadth. At high water IL averages about
feet perpendicular Its cubic contents, then, are cd
to foot perpendicular spread over the same lenI
twenty-five miles in breadth. This is just twelfth
only Of the quantity fallen in Ave weeks The evsT
ton at this season Of tho year IL small The ground
two.thirds Of the whole amount fallen must 6nl il
to the Ohio river, and outlet to the Mississippi
gives the cause Of the very high and continued stag
the Ohio river at this season of the year. and the
flow of tho Soioto Miami, and other tributaries o
Ohio. The entire metsorology Of this season has
quite remarkable 1t is vain to make exact predict
but II 10 certain that within year or two, We nuG1
very dry and cool season, most probably in the "a
summer Cincinnati Chronicle.