Show EFFECTS fron FROM THI tilt WIND or AM AN AVALANCHE one olle of the tile most remarkable phenomena attending the avalanche is the blast of air which accompanies it and which like what u Is called calli d the wind of a cannonball cannon ball bali extends its ite de e influence influenza to a considerable distance OB on each side of bf the actual line taken by the falling mass it has all the effects of a blast of gunpowder sometimes forest forist greeg treel growing near tha the sides of the channel down which the snow passes are uprooted and aud laid prostrate without haling been touched by it in ill this way the village of randa switzerland lost many of its I 1 houses bouses on 18 b by the current of or an nit avalanche which fell in I 1 1720 72 blowing them thein to atoms and scattering the material like ike chaff the east spire spite of the khe convent of 0 me die gentis litls ittis was thrown down by the gustef wust gust gustof ot an au which fell more than a q guerter f a mile mils off |