{"newspaper_name": "American watchman and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
Harm We0fher If all the accounts of the heat Of the
past entitled to full ced then we might be-
eve we were that favored people, for whose especial
benefit,


"1he sun came down from his sky blue seat.


To warm their puddings and roast their meat,


And stayed so long and raised such heat,


There was nothing eatable fit to eat


The Birds were boiled by the steamng breeze:
The Apples baked on their mother trees
The fishes were fried in the running rlls,
And Potatoes smoked in their w.edy hills"
Terrible stories told in the old Geographical books
Of the climate of Northern countries, where the roofs OF
houses frequently take fire from the intense heat but these
Munchausen tales outdone by the marvellous accounts
of the sury days of the past Men, women chit.
dren, oxen, horses and sheep have melted with fer
vent heat Ice houses and forests have been consumed
Rivers have been made warm, that their inhabitants
went shore to cool themselves the plates of handsaws
have become so hot that the honest laborers who used
them, could prepare their dinners the well by
the best Rumford apparatus and with better economy of
fuel the boilers ofseam boa and banks have burst
and it is altogether probable that the great fermet in
Georgia has been entirely occasoned by the weather


Worcester .9Ggis.