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The philosophy of storms (1841)

Espy, James P. (James Pollard), 1785-1860, author · Boston : Charles C. Little and James Brown · leaf 163

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105 LABORS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE. nor at Emmettsburg till four o’clock, P. M., nor at Philadel¬ phia till ten minutes past five o’clock, P. M. … By casting the eye on the wood cut, it will be seen at a glance that the wind blew on all sides towards the point of greatest rain. But what is not a little remarkable, the wind was much more violent all round the borders of the storm, than near the centre.1 At Harrisburg and Gettysburg it was…

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