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Queries and strictures, respecting Espy's meteorological report to the Naval Department : also, the conclusion arrived at by a committee of the Academy of Sciences of France, agreeably to which, tornadoes are caused by heat : while, agreeably to Peltier's report to the same body, certain insurers had been obliged to pay for a tornado as an electrical storm : with abstracts from Peltier's report