The Transactions of the American Agricultural Association, 1846, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: American Agricultural Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333766597
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Excerpt from The Transactions of the American Agricultural Association, 1846, Vol. 1 Professor loomis called the attention of the Association to the recent progress of Meteor ology, and particularly to some remarkable phenomena Of two storms which occurred in February, 1842. Both Of these storms were of great extent. The first, which occurred about the fourth of the month, was remarkable for the amount of rain and an elevated temperature; the other, which occurred about the sixteenth, was remarkable for the strength of the wind and the fall of the barometer. On the morning Of February 3, rain was falling over an area extending uninterupt edly from the Gulf Of Mexico, on the South, to a great distance beyond the St. Lawrence, on the North; and from beyond the Mississippi, on the West, to an unknown distance in the Atlantic ocean. On the afternoon of the fourth, a most destructive tornado was experienced in the northern part of Ohio, being almost exactly in the centre Of the general storm. On the second and third of February, the centre of the storm was nearly stationary. On the fourth and fifth it traveled North, sixty-two degrees East, at the rate of sixty-two miles per hour. The storm Of February 16, traveled in a direction North, fifty-three degrees East, at the rate of twenty-three miles per hour. In both of those storms, the wind, after it became violent and there was a considerable fall Of the barometer, manifested a tendency to revolve about a centre, with a motion spirally inward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.