. St. Nicholas [serial] . the rate of from say twentyto forty miles an hour, with deafening roaringnoise. This gigantic upward whirlwind takes uptrees by their roots, tears houses to pieces, andscatters the fragments for miles. Children,and even grown-up folks, are taken up into theair and carried long distances, falling at last soviolently as to cause instant death or at leastvery serious injuries. In such land tornadoes the destruction is soterrible that it makes what is known as a path of devastation. People within thispath can, of course, know but little of theappearance of the cloud overh
. St. Nicholas [serial] . the rate of from say twentyto forty miles an hour, with deafening roaringnoise. This gigantic upward whirlwind takes uptrees by their roots, tears houses to pieces, andscatters the fragments for miles. Children,and even grown-up folks, are taken up into theair and carried long distances, falling at last soviolently as to cause instant death or at leastvery serious injuries. In such land tornadoes the destruction is soterrible that it makes what is known as a path of devastation. People within thispath can, of course, know but little of theappearance of the cloud overhead or of the ap-pearance between cloud and earth, but thereare many descriptive accounts from people whohave been at a safe distance. Such observerstell of the funnel-shaped cloud and the whirl- ing, twisting, writhing spout of the funnel,that reaches down to the ground, sweeping ortaking up nearly everything, forming the pathas it passes along. A tornado at sea is calleda waterspout, and then it indeed is a funnel, for. NO. I. THE WATERSPOUT AT THE TIME OF ITS BEST FORMA-TION. IN THIS THE SPOUT PART IS VERY SHARPLY TOOK UP THE WATER, IT IS CLAIMED. THE DOWNPOUR ANDTHE CLOUD-FORMS ARE SHOWN ON THE NEXT PAGE. 936 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 937 it is one tubular column ofwater and vapor, that isdrawn in from the surround-ing atmosphere or from thesea. It is generally ad-mitted that in at least theouter part of the spout thewater and vapor are go-ing upward in violent whirl-ing motion. One observa-tion has led scientists tothink that there is in thecenter of the spout waterand vapor moving down-ward. There are also dif-ferences of opinion as towhether the water on theoutside is wholly fresh fromthe falling rain and sur-rounding vapor or at leastpartly salt from the waterof the sea. Mr. Baldwin Coolidge, aphotographer of Boston,had the rare opportunityof taking a series of pho-tographs of a waterspouton the Atlantic Ocean nearMarthas Vineyard. He wason the bl
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