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Scientific American, Vol. 46, No. 16 (1882) (1882)

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elle Vernon, Pa., has patented ‘was placed, the base alone suffered seriously. The appear- snow was disintegrated and sent whirling with the velocity of fine shot from a gun, the rush of air created by the ava- lanche being sufficient to lift men from tbeir feet and knock niently. The cattle car is… … the lake, but as immense clouds of fine, dry snow from the tremely liable to.set on fire the wooden mantelpiece sur- avalanches filled the air the full width of the cafion, the sun rounding it, and the construction above described also poured through and turned the whole mass to eddying gold…

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