Accidents > Awful phenomena of nature -- snow storms, third of March and twenty-third April, 1827

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who alighted from a mail coach, and hurried
back to his own residence—that is when he saw
the snow falling so fast—under the firm impres¬
sion that his presence was imperiously called on
to avert something' like absolute ruin.
Remarkable Preservation of Three
Women.
In 1755, they had in Turin a great fall of
rain; and as it generally snows in the mountains,
when it only rains in the plain, it cannot appear
surprising, that during this interval, there fell
vast quantities of snow on the mountains, which
of course formed several valancas. The bad
weather which prevailed in so many other places,
prevailed likewise at Bergemoletto, a little ham¬
let, seated in that part of the Alps which
separates the valley of Stura and Piedmont from
Dauphine and the country of Nice.
On March 19th, many of the inhabitants of this
hamlet began to apprehend that the weight ot the
snow which was already fallen, and still continued
to fall, might crush their houses, which are built
with stones peculiar to the country, cemented by
nothing but mud, and a very small portion of
lime, and covered with thatch laid on the roof of
shingles, and large thin stones, supported by
thick beams. I hey therefore got upon their
roofs, to lighten them of the snow.