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Author: Perley, Sidney, 1858-1928.
Title: Historic storms of New England : its gales, hurricanes, tornadoes, showers with thunder and lightning, great snow storms, rains, freshets, floods, droughts, cold winters, hot summers, avalanches, earthquakes, dark days, comets, aurora-borealis, phenomena in the heavens, wrecks along the coast, with incidents and anecdotes, amusing and pathetic /
Print source: Historic storms of New England : its gales, hurricanes, tornadoes, showers with thunder and lightning, great snow storms, rains, freshets, floods, droughts, cold winters, hot summers, avalanches, earthquakes, dark days, comets, aurora-borealis, phenomena in the heavens, wrecks along the coast, with incidents and anecdotes, amusing and pathetic / by Sidney Perley.
Perley, Sidney, 1858-1928.
Salem: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co., 1891.
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
2007-12-04
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Storms--New England.
New England--History.
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Contents
[Front Cover].
[Front Matter].
[Title Page].
[Table of Contents].
Introduction.
Chapter I. The Great Storm of August, 1635.
Chapter II. The Earthquake of 1638.
Chapter III. The Earthquake of 1663.
Chapter IV. The Comet of 1664.
Chapter V. Strange Appearance in the Heavens in 1667.
Chapter VI. The Storm of 1676, and Shipwreck of Ephraim Howe.
Chapter VII. The Comet of 1680.
Chapter VIII. Strange Appearance in the Heavens in 1682.
Chapter IX. The Dark Day of 1716.
Chapter X. The Winter of 1716-17.
Chapter XI. Wreck of the Pirate Ship Whidah.
Chapter XII. The Aurora Borealis in 1719.
Chapter XIII. The Storm of February 24, 1722-23.
Chapter XIV. Earthquake of 1727.
Chapter XV. The Winter of 1740-41.
Chapter XVI. The Earthquake of 1744.
Chapter XVII. The Winter of 1747-48.
Chapter XVIII. The Hurricane at Pepperell, Mass., 1748.
Chapter XIX. The Drought of 1749.
Chapter XX. The Great Earthquake of 1755.
Chapter XXI. The Hurricane at Leicester, Mass., in 1759.
Chapter XXII. The Drought of 1762.
Chapter XXIII. Showers with Thunder and Lightning in 1768.
Chapter XXIV. The Gale of December 4, 1768.
Chapter XXV. The Summer of 1769.
Chapter XXVI. The Great Freshet of 1770.
Chapter XXVII. The Summer of 1770.
Chapter XXVIII. The Storm of October 20, 1770.
Chapter XXIX. The Summer of 1771.
Chapter XXX. The Hurricane on Merrimac river in 1773.
Chapter XXXI. The Storm of November, 1774.
Chapter XXXII. The Dark Day of 1780.
Chapter XXXIII. The Hurricane of June 23, 1782.
Chapter XXXIV. The Great Freshet of October, 1785.
Chapter XXXV. The Tornado of 1786.
Chapter XXXVI. The Snow Storms of December, 1786.
Chapter XXXVII. The Cyclone of August, 1787.
Chapter XXXVIII. The Meteor of 1787.
Chapter XXXIX. The Gale of 1788.
Chapter XL. The Whirlwind of June 19, 1794.
Chapter XLI. The Long Storm of November, 1798.
XLII. Hail Storm in Connecticut in 1799.
Chapter XLIII. The Freshet of 1801.
Chapter XLIV. The Great Snow Storm of February, 1802.
Chapter XLV. Storm of October, 1804.
Chapter XLVI. Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1806.
Chapter XLVII. The Freshet of 1807.
Chapter XLVIII. The Meteorite of 1807.
Chapter XLIX. Cold Friday, 1810.
Chapter L. The Freshet of 1814.
Chapter LI. The Tornado in New Hampshire in 1814.
Chapter LII. The Gale of September 23, 1815.
Chapter LIII. The Cold Summer of 1816.
Chapter LIV. The Tornadoes of September 9, 1821.
Chapter LV. The Spring Freshet of 1823.
Chapter LVI. The Spring Freshet of 1826.
Chapter LVII. The Avalanche in the White Mountains, and Destruction of the [...].
Chapter LVIII. The Wreck of the Almira, 1827.
Chapter LIX. Gale and Freshet of April, 1827.
Chapter LX. The Storm of March, 1830.
Chapter LXI. The Great Freshet of July, 1830.
Chapter LXII. Meteoric Display of 1833.
Chapter LXIII. Winter of 1835-36.
Chapter LXIV. The Storms of December, 1839.
Chapter LXV. "The October Gale," 1841.
Chapter LXVI. The Storm of 1842.
Chapter LXVII. The Freshet of 1846.
Chapter LXVIII. The Storm of December, 1847.
Chapter LXIX. The Storm of October, 1849.
Chapter LXX. The "Lighthouse" Storm, 1851.
Chapter LXXI. The Tornado of August 22, 1851.
Chapter LXXII. The Storm of April, 1852.
Chapter LXXIII. The Freshet of November, 1853.
Chapter LXXIV. Winter of 1856-57.
Chapter LXXV. The Gale of September 8, 1869.
Chapter LXXVI. The Tornado at Wallingford, Conn., in 1878.
Chapter LXXVII. The Yellow Day of 1881.
Chapter LXXVIII. Cyclone at Lawrence, Mass., in 1890.
[Back Matter].
[Back Cover].