Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . G from all the information, historicaland traditional, relating to the great Americangales during tlie last hundred years, it wouldap]icar that the one which occurred in NewEngland, on the 2
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . G from all the information, historicaland traditional, relating to the great Americangales during tlie last hundred years, it wouldap]icar that the one which occurred in NewEngland, on the 23d of September, 1815, wasand is still without a parallel, in its extraordi-nary characteristics of violence and destruc-tiveness. In the liistory of the country,dating back to its earliest annals, there is noaccount of any gale or hurricane equalingthis, in its various phenomena of suddenness,severity and power. As distinguishing it,tlierefore, above all others of its class, thishas ever since been called the Great Septem-lier Gale. The observations of the character, courseiid effects of this wonderful storm, made byProfessor Farrar and others, for the latitudeI. , f Hoston, show that it was there i)receded byfor about twenty-four hours with a moderate windEarly in the morning of the twenty-third, the wind shiftedto the east, and began to blow in gusts accompanied with showers. It continued. l»:«:il«».N UV TUK t,UK.\l A rain, which continued to fallfrom the north-east GREAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 265 to change toward the south and to increasein violence while the rain abated. Be-tween nine and ten oclock in the fore-noon, it began to excite alarm. Chimneysand trees were blown over both to thewest and north ; but shingles and slates,that were torn from the roofs of buildings,were carried to the greatest distance in thedirection of about three points west ofnorth. Between half-past ten and half-pasteleven oclock, the greatest destructiontook place. The ra
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