138 REMARKABLE HURRICANE. 
were torn up, the fences were thrown down, fcattered or 
carried off, and the various kinds of lumber that lay dif- 
perfed on the fhore, were whirled about in different direc- 
tions, and to different diftances. Some houfes and veffels 
that feemed the moft expofed to the wind, fuffered nothing 
_ at all; and others that feemed to be the leaft expofed, were 
much damaged or carried off. The number of buildings 
that fuffered was about 120: And though many perfons 
were carried to fome diftance, and others much hurt, be- 
ing covered in the ruins or in the cellars of their houfes, 
no lives were loft. At the place where this deftruction 
was done, the buildings were pretty thick, amounting to 
about 150. The general direction of the hurricane was 
from eaft-fouth-eaft to weft-north-weft. Its extent, in 
width, was about a quarter of a mile; in length, about a 
mile and three quarters: And its duration, not more than 
four minutes from the time it firft began till all became 
fill and quiet again. 
At the fame time confiderable damage was done at Ha- 
verhill, ten miles higher up the river. There the hurri- 
cane came on from the fouth-weit. Its firft effect was the 
deftruction of a large new barn. The barn containing a 
large quantity of hay and grain, was crufhed down in an 
inftant. The hay, boards and fhingles were {fcattered 
round to all points of the compafs, to the diftance of 
four or five rods from the place where the barn ftood; 
and fome of them were carried to the diftance of three 
miles north-eaft. A large dwelling houfe at eight or ten 
rods diftance, was much damaged; every board and rib 
was torn from the roof, and the chimney wrecked to the 
foundation. Five barns were almoft wholly deftroyed, 
and a number of houfes and other buildings were much 
damaged. In fome, the windows and doors were drove 
in; in others, the boards and fhingles were ripped off and 
{cattered in all direGtions. The ftone walls in fome places 
were almoft levelled with the ground; and the trees to the 
number 
