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sed that figure. l think that the gen. erai public in it's estimate mixed June's fervent finale with July's heat ed term and failed to note the cool l closing week of the latter with it's re- puted descent into the fifties. It is consolatory to find that other estab- lished stations agree with my report, and that the excessive heat was mani
 fested in peculiar localities, with espee- ial facilities for refraction and shut out from tempering breezes. Here in my own vicinity the observer at North Grosvenordale reports l02 degrees. i Still while it must be admitted that my thermometer did not rise to the oc- casion, il has ever gave us the second
 highest figure in seven years. This July gave Us one of the most remark. able wind and thunderstorms ever
 witnessed in this section. It seems to have resembled q western cyclone, ex. cept that it scovered a wider extent of l country. It swept from the far south
 west through Connecticut and on into
 Massachusetts. Reports of casualties from wind, hail, lightning. stroke and
 fire ensuing, came from all parts of the i state. It moved with surprising swiftness, apparently striking many l points at nearly the same hour-a lit- tie after P. m. The day had been in. tensely hot. A haze obscured the sun and clouds began to form about 4 o'clock. A black cloud lay low in the
 west and as it thickened and thunder muttered l shut up my house and re. paired to neighbor's-more sheltered in position-and so missed the cloud effects and oncoming roar. i could only see melee of dust, leaves, and debris, trees tossing and falling, amid such clash and roar as even to deaden the thunder. It's fury was spent in about half an hour, long enough, how. ever, 10 level many trees and do much damage in this and neighboring towns. This terrific outburst was followed by wonderful display of beauty. The sky was covered with an amber haze. and as the sun came out clear a little before setting, the landscape was food ed with this marvellous light. Far as the eye could reach, hill, dale, shrub, 1 and tree, stood out with the utmost distinctness, as if crested with glisten. i ing snow, while above hung a triple l rainbow, each arch perfect in form and of vivid depth of coloring. The storm | that visited parts of Boston and vicin- fly the same afternoon was apparently Of distinct origin, but had the same characteristics, even to the sky of "greenlsh yellow, at sunset. At Will sonvilie, in this town, the factory and other buildings were seriously damag- ed by wind and lightning. The etfact of this storm upon animals was been. liar. Horses manifested great uneasi. ness before its coming, and one old stager which had faithfully carried Thompson mail through all vieissi. tudes Of wind and snow refused to budge an inch in the face of this an preaching terror.
 While thunderstorms may always hs expected in July, and days and nights of gentle rain, protrscted and yinlen, storms are infrequent. I recall none within my term of observation impress sing me like that;in which Margaret Fuller ossou perished, July Is. 1851 l remember well the ominous dark. ness, the wailing wind, the lashing ram, the tossing and clashing.of the herviiy leaved naples, and, more than all, the racks of clouds sweepino through the ,shrouded sky. Clouas Ike those described by Miss Bronta in herwonderful picture of the stormth., wrecked Mir. Paul in her "vil,ette n Nesef before, nor since, have seen