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Rh rose to about twenty-five miles per hour, after which it rapidly declined.

Owing to the interruption in the continuity of these records, it is impossible to affirm that the maximum velocity of the wind was recorded. In fact, there are reasons for believing that the storm reached its greatest violence somewhat before three o'clock.

It seems quite certain, then, that at times during the storm the velocity



of the wind exceeded one hundred miles per hour; and especially must this have been the case during some of the most violent blasts, which where generally of too short duration to show with their full effect upon the register made. The fact that the pendulum of the anemograph was stopped between two and three o'clock by one of these