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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A violent hail storm recently struck Bohemia from Prague to Sorau, with hailstones up to three pounds destroying crops over 120 miles and killing people and animals. Elsewhere in Germany, plentiful crops are expected except in the affected district.
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days, which make mention of a violent storm of hail that fell
lately in Bohemia, extending from Prague to Sorau; the hail
stones are said to have weighed, several of them, three pounds
each; the grain and other fruits of the earth were destroyed
for one hundred and twenty miles in circumference, and many
persons, together with the beasts that were in the fields, were
killed. The same letters say, that there is the most general ap-
pearance of very plentiful crops throughout Germany, except in
that particular district where the storm fell, which came from
the South, and took its direction Northerly.
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Bohemia
Event Date
Lately
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grain and other fruits of the earth were destroyed for one hundred and twenty miles in circumference, and many persons, together with the beasts that were in the fields, were killed
Event Details
A violent storm of hail fell lately in Bohemia, extending from Prague to Sorau; the hail stones weighed several of them three pounds each. The same letters say that there is the most general appearance of very plentiful crops throughout Germany, except in that particular district where the storm fell, which came from the South, and took its direction Northerly.