Hail is the congelation of drops of rain in irregular forms, always sudden,by some attributed to electricity and currents of air violently rarefied by it, and by others to rain-drops falling through a cold stratum of air and suddenly congealed.

The declivities from the mountains and all the heights must suffer from the frequent and heavy falls of water and its descent to the valleys, as also from the deep congelations during our severe winters.

He had once, he said, intended to use the expansive force of congelation for his moving power; but he found, after making a full and accurate calculation, that the labourers required to keep the machine supplied with ice, consumed something more than twice as much corn as the mill would grind in the same time.

Are these congelations in consequence of the daily solution of the hoar-frost which is produced on the summit during the night?] Stay, bright inhabitant of air, alight, 260 Ambitious VISCA, from thy eagle-flight!