Wind moving 4 or 5 miles per hour travels 352 to 440 fe per minute, 5.87 to 7.33 feet per second, and has a force of .079 to 0.123 pounds per square foot; gentle breeze.

Wind moving 1 or 15 miles per hour travels 880 to 1,320 feet per minute, 14.67 to 22 feet per second, and has a force of 0.492 to 1.107 pounds per square foot; pleasant breeze. Wind moving 20 or 25 miles per hour travels 1,760 to 2,200 feet per minute, 29.3 to 36.6 feet per second, and has a force of 1.970 to 3.067 pounds per square foot; brisk gale. Wind moving 30 or 35 miles per hour travels 2,640 to 3,080 feet per minute, 44.0 to 51.3 feet per second, and has a force of 4.429 to 6.027 pounds per square foot; high wind. Wind moving 40 or 45 miles per hour travels 3,520 to 3.960 feet per minute, 58.6 to 66.0 feet per second, and has a force of 7,870 to 9,900 pounds per square foot; very high wind.

Wind moving 50 miles per hour travels 4,400 feet per minute, 73.3 feet per second, and has a force of 12.304 pounds per square foot; storm.

Wind moving 60 or 70 miles per hour travels 5,280 to 6,160 feet per minute, 88.0 to 102.7 feet per second, and has a force of 17.733 to 24.153 pounds per square foot; great storm. Wind moving 80 or 100 miles per hour travels 7,040 to 8,800 feet per minute, 117.3 to 146.6 feet per second, and has a force of 31,490 to 49,200 pounds per square foot; hurri.

cane.

A TABLE FOR FORETELLING THE WEATHER.

The following is Dr. Adam Clarke's famous table for foretelling the kind of weather throughout all the Lunations for each year forever. If correct, it will be an invaluable friend to the farmer, and, indeed, to persons of almost every occupation. Try it.

Table-The table and the accompanying remarks are the result of many years' actual observation, the whole being constructed on a due consideration of the attraction of the sun and moon, in the several positions respecting the earth, and will, by a simple inspec tion, show the observer what kind of weather will most probably follow the entrance of the moon into any of its quarters, and that so near the truth as to be seldom or never found to fail.

Observations.-1. The nearer the time of the Moon's change, First Quarter, Full, and Last Quarter, are to midnight, the fairer will the weather be during the seven days fol lowing. 2. The space for this calculation occupies from 10 at night till 2 next morning. 3. The nearer to mid-day or noon the phases of the moon happen, the more foul or wet weather may be expected during the next seven days. 4. The space for this calculation occupies from 10 in the forenoon to 2 in the afternoon. These observations refer princi. pally to the Summer, though they affect Spring and Autumn nearly in the same ratio. 5. The Moon's change, First Quarter, Full, and Last Quarter, happening during six of the afternoon hours, i. e, from 4 to 10, may be followed by fair weather; but this is mostly dependent on the wind, as noted in the table. 6. Though the weather, from a variety of irregular causes, is more uncertain in the latter part of autumn, the whole winter, and the beginning of spring, yet, in the main, the above observations will apply to those periods also. 7. To prognosticate correctly, especially in those cases where the wind is com cerned, the observer should be within sight of a good vane, where the four cardinal points of the heavens are correctly placed. Within this precaution, he will scarcely ever be de ceived in depending on the table.

THE UNITED STATES.

A COMPREHENSIVE COMPEND OF THE HISTORY OF
AMERICA, FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO
THE PRESENT.

1492. Aug. 3, Columbus sails from Spain on voyage of discovery. Oct. 12, Columbus discovers San Salvador, one of the Bahama Islands.

1494. Jamaica discovered by Columbus.

1497. Newfoundland and Labrador discovered by Cabots.

1498. Aug. 1, Columbus discovers South American Continent.

1499. South America visited by Americus Vespucius.

1510. Isthmus of Darien settled by Ojeda, a companion of Columbus.

1512. April 2, Florida discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon.

1513. Sept. 26, Pacific Ocean discovered by Vasco Nunez de Balboa. 1517. Yucatan explored by Cordova.

1518. Mexico visited by Grijalva.

1519. March 13, Cortez lands at Tabasco, in Mexico.

1520. De Ayllon discovers Carolina.

1522. Bermudas discovered by Juan Bermudez.

1524. Verrazani, a Florentine, sent by French, lands in North Carolina,

and explores coast to Newfoundland.

1528. Florida explored by Nordaez with 300 men; but four survive. 1534. Cartier enters Gulf of St. Lawrence.

1537. California discovered by Cortez.

1539. Ferdinand De Soto heads an expedition to conquer Florida. 1540. Coronado explores the Rio Grande.

1541. De Soto discovers the Mississippi.

1542. De Soto died; buried in the Mississippi.

Cabrillo explores Pacific coast as far 44° North.

1562. Coligny attempts to found a French colony in Florida.

1564. French under Laudonnière build Fort Carolina on St. John River, Florida, and garrison killed by Spanish under Melendez.

1565. St. Augustine founded by Spaniards under Melendez.

Spanish garrison at St. Augustine massacred by secret expedition under DeGourges, a French soldier of fortune.

1576. Martin Frobisher, an Englishman, discovers strait bearing his name. 1579. Sir Francis Drake sails around the Cape of Good Hope.

1582. Espego explores valley Rio Grande; names it New Mexico. 1583. Sir Humphrey Gilbert takes possession of Newfoundland in name of England.

1584. Sir Walter Raleigh sends two vessels to Virginia.

1585. Roanoke Island settled by English, who starved to death. 1587. John White and 117 men settle on Roanoke, and all perish.

1602. May 15, Cape Cod discovered and named by Bartholomew Gos

nold, an Englishman.

1603. Coast of Maine visited by Martin Pring.

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1605. Port Royal, Acadia (Nova Scotia), settled by French under De

Monts.

1607. Jamestown, Va., settled and governed by council of seven. John Smith captured by Indians; saved by Pocahontas.

1608. July 3, Quebec founded by Champlain.

[Pilgrims.

Puritans go to Holland and Leyden, and elsewhere; hence called

1609. Lord Delaware appointed Governor of Virginia.

Hudson River discovered by Henry Hudson.

Champlain enters New York State to assist Huron Indians.

1610. Delaware Bay named in honor of Lord de la War, who visited the bay at that time, and died on vessel at its mouth.

1611. Lake Champlain discovered by Champlain.

1612. New charter granted Virginia.

1613. Pocahontas weds John Rolfe.

[at Fort Orange (Albany).

1614. New York settled by Dutch on Manhattan Island (New York), and 1615. Tobacco first cultivated in Virginia.

1619. First Colonial Assembly at Jamestown.

1620. Slaves first introduced into Virginia by the Dutch.

Mayflower arrives Cape Cod harbor, in Dec.

Dec. 21, Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock.
John Carver, first Governor Mass.

1621. May 12, first marriage at Plymouth.

Treaty made with Massasoit.

1622. Indian massacre at Jamestown.

1623. Maine and New Hampshire settled by the English.

New Jersey settled by Swedes and Dutch.

[Albany.

Dutch build Fort Nassau on Delaware, and Fort Orange near

1625. Manhattan Island settled by Dutch.

1627. Leading Massachusett colonists pay $9000 for their territory. Delaware settled by Swedes and Finns.

1628. Salem, Mass., settled by John Endicott.

1629. Charleston founded by Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Mason becomes sole proprietor of colonies in Maine.

1632. Charles I. grants Md. to Lord Baltimore.

[Mary's.

1634. March 27, Leonard Calvert, brother of Lord Baltimore, founds St. 1635. Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts.

Connecticut settled by English at Saybrook.

1636. Beginning Pequod war.

Providence settled by Roger Williams.

Hartford settled.

1637. Mr. Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts.

Harvard College founded.

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1638. New Haven, Conn., founded by Eaton and Davenport. Settlement of Swedes on Delaware, near Wilmington.

1639. First printing press set up at Cambridge by Richard Day.

Island of Aquidneck purchased from Indians and called the Island

of Rhodes.

1640. Montreal founded.

1641. Maine puts herself under protection of Massachusetts. 1643. Indian war with settlers on Manhattan.

1643. Charter granted Providence and Island of Rhodes, and called R. I. Tinicum Island, below Philadelphia, settled by Swedes.

1644. Second attack of Indians upon Jamestown, followed by Indian war. Wm. Clayborne, from Va., a rival claimant to Md., compels Gov. Calvert to flee.

1646. Calvert returns and drives Clayborne out of Md.

1647. R. I. passed celebrated act granting freedom to religious faith and worship of all sects.

Stuyvesant became Governor of Manhattan Island.

1648. First execution for witchcraft; New London settlers securing religious freedom.

1649. Toleration act passed by Lord Baltimore. 1650. Harvard College chartered.

1651. N. C. settled at mouth of Chowan river.

1652. Clayborne reappears in Md. as Commissioner from Parliament and forces Governor Stone to resign, the province passing under royal control.

1655. Stuyvesant takes possession of Swedish settlements in N. Y. 1660. Lord Baltimore regains control of Md., which continued till 1691, when State became a royal province till 1715, when the Lords Baltimore were restored their rights.

1660-63. Navigation act passed by which colonial products were shipped to England alone in English vessels, and colonists were compelled to buy in English markets and have purchases carried in English ships.

1663. Carolina granted to Lord Clarendon by Charles II.

[till 1842.

New charter granted R. I. by Charles II., which continued in force
Settlement at Albemarle, on Chowan River, N. C.

1664. N. J. settled at Elizabethtown.

New Amsterdam seized by England and called New York.

1665. June 12, New York City incorporated.

Clarendon Colony settles near Wilmington, N. C.

1668. French Jesuit missionaries founded St. Mary's, Mich.

1670. Old Charleston founded, and settlement called Carteret Colony. 1672. Charleston, S. C., founded; first copyright granted by Mass. 1673. Virginia granted to Lords Arlington and Culpepper.

Dutch regain New York; 15 months later transferred to English.
Father Marquette, French missionary, discovers Mississippi River in
June, and stopped at present site of Chicago.
[Mass.

1675. June 24, commencement of King Philip's war; attack on Swanzey, 1676. Another Indian war in Va. when authorities refuse settlers arms; people rebel, led by Mason, and Jamestown burnt; Governor Berkeley hangs 27 rebels.

Death of King Philip ends Indian war in Massachusetts.

1677. Culpepper secures entire control of Va.

1680. N. H. at the request of Mason made a royal province. Present city of Charleston founded.

1681. Grant of lands to Wm. Penn.

Quakers under Wm. Penn settle at New Castle, on the Delaware, 1682. La Salle descends the Mississippi to the Gulf and names Louisiana,

1682. N. J. sold to Wm. Penn and other Quakers. 1683. City of Philadelphia laid out. [royal province. 1684. Culpepper surrenders patent of Va. to the Crown, making it a 1686. La Salle brings French emigrants for Louisiana; misses destination; lands in Texas; expected aid from France fails; starts north with ten companions for Canada; murdered en route; colony perishes.

1687. Connecticut's charter hidden in famous oak.

[ford. First printing-press established in Philadelphia by William Brad1689. First French colonial war.

1690. First newspaper published in Boston; stopped after first issue. Acadia (Nova Scotia) taken by English colonists, plundered and inhabitants carried away. [executed. 1691. English Governor Leisher, of N. Y., and son-in-law, Milbourne, 1692. Beginning Salem witchcraft persecutions.

1693. First printing-press started in New York by William Bradford. 1697. End of King William's war.

1699. Kidd, the pirate, apprehended in Boston.

1701. Yale College founded at Saybrook.

1702. Wm. Penn and Quakers surrender N. J. to crown. [colonists. Second colonial (Queen Anne's war) between English and French 1703. Culture of silk introduced into Carolinas; duty of £4 laid on imported negroes into Mass. [Bartholomew Green. 1704. First newspaper (Boston News Letter) published at Boston by 1706. Combined Spanish and French attempt to capture Charleston. 1709. First printing-press in Conn. set up at New London by Thomas

Short.

1710. First colonial post-office at New York.

1712. Free schools founded in Charlestown, Mass.

1713. End of Queen Anne's war by treaty Utrecht.

1714. First schooner built at Cape Ann.

1717. New Orleans founded by French.

1719. First Presbyterian Church founded in New York.

1721. Inoculation for smallpox introduced into New York.

1725. First newspaper in New York (New York Gazette) published by William Bradford.

1729. Carolina becomes a royal province and divides into N. and S. C. owing to expenses incurred by the Indian war.

1732. Tobacco made a legal tender in Md. at Id. per pound and corn at 20d. per bushel.

February 22, George Washington born.

James Oglethorpe secures grant of land now comprising State of Ga.

1733. Georgia settled by Oglethorpe at Savannah.

1738. College founded at Princeton, N. J.

1741. Suppression of negro plot to burn New York.

1742. Faneuil Hall, Boston, erected by Peter Faneuil.

1744. Beginning third colonial (King George's) war.

1748. War ended by treaty of Aix La Chapelle.

1749. Six hundred thousand acres of land west of the Allegheny Moun tains granted the Ohio Company.