 ... perceptible, — but by sounds and tremors, which sometimes are very fearful and dreadful. I have myself heard eight or ten sounds successively, and imitating small arms, in the space of five minutes. I have, I suppose, heard several hundreds of them...  Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society - Page 281by Connecticut Historical Society - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Trumbull - Connecticut - 1818 - 556 pages
...suppose, heard several hundreds " of them within twenty years ; some more, some less tcr« " rible. Sometimes we have heard them almost every day, " and great numbers of them in the space of a year. Often " times I have observed them to be coming down from the " north, imitating slow thunder, until... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...imitating small arms, in five minutes. I have, I suppose, heard several hundreds of them within twenty years; some more, some less terrible. Sometimes we...and great numbers of them in the space of a year. Often times I have observed them to be coming down from the north, imitating slow thunder, until the... | |
 | David Dudley Field - Middlesex (Conn.) - 1819 - 166 pages
...in the space of five minutes. 1 havej (I suppose,) heard several hundreds of them within this twenty years, some more, some less terrible. Sometimes we...every day, and great numbers of them in the space t»fa year. Oftentimes I have observed them to be coming down from the north," (the center of them... | |
 | Frederick Butler - United States - 1821 - 480 pages
...of them within twenty VOL. I. 32 years ; some more, some less terrible. Sometimes we have heard them every day, and great numbers of them in the space of a year. Often times I have observed them lo be coming down from the north, imitating slow thunder, until the... | |
 | John Warner Barber - History - 1836 - 598 pages
...arms, in the space of five minutes. I have, I suppose, heard several hundreds of them within twenty years; some more, some less terrible. Sometimes we...and great numbers of them in the space of a year. Often times I have observed them to be coming down from the north, imitating slow thunder, until the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...every day, and great numhers of them in the space of a year. Oftentimes I have ohserved them to he coming down from the north, imitating slow thunder,...came near or right under, and then there seemed to he a hreaking, like the noise of caunon shot or severe thunder, which shakes the houses and all that... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connectictut - 1855 - 774 pages
...as visibly to shake the ground and buildings. Mr. Hosmer says — "Oftentimes I have observed them coming down from the north, imitating slow thunder, until the sound came near or quite under, and then there seemed to be a breaking, like the noise of a cannon shot, or severe thunder,... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connecticut - 1857 - 788 pages
...as visibly to shake the ground and buildings. Mr. Hosmer says — "Oftentimes I have observed them coming down from the north, imitating slow thunder, until the sound came near or quite under, and then there seemed to be a breaking, like the noise of a cannon shot, or severe thunder,... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connecticut - 1858 - 808 pages
...as visibly to shake the ground and buildings. Mr. Hosmer says — "Oftentimes I have observed them coming down from the north, imitating slow thunder, until the sound came near or quite under, and then there seemed to be a breaking, like the noise of a cannon shot, or severe thunder,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1870 - 864 pages
...imitating small arms, in the space of five minutes. . . . Oftentimes I have observed them to be coining from the north, imitating slow thunder, until the...there seemed to be a breaking, like the noise of a cannonshot or severe thunder, which shakes the houses and all that is in them." In 1840 these Haddam... | |
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