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Show On the 10th instant the wind on Mount ashington reached a velocity of eighty-eight miles an hour. This is nearly double the velocity of the highest high-est wind ever registered at low altitudes, alti-tudes, but is much less than has been noticed several times this -season on Mount Washington. A dispatch to the Boston Journal from the summit of the mountain says that in taking observations, the operator would go ouly a rod or so from the door, so as to expose the instrument fully, and then it was necessary to sit down or lie down, for nn nprson pnnl, cl.ir, C. ; 1- moment against such a terrific assault. A perfect shower of ice and fragments of frost work fly across the summit, and one is in as much danger as when exposed ex-posed to a shower of briclcbats. |