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came‘down at various distances, some into another timber- 
yard about 200 yards off. I saw a great number of the planks 
and two of the rafters of the shed at this latter place; the 
rafters were 18 feet long, 9 inches wide, and 3 inches thick— 
one of them coming down endways, had entered the earth to 
a considerable depth, and was broken short off. The roofs of 
many of the houses, and stories in the track I have mentioned, 
were stripped of their slates to a greater or less, in some in- 
stances to a very considerable extent. In one place, two 
chimneys were pointed out to me, in a low situation, attached 
to a bakery ; they were of great strength, being from 3 to 4 
feet in the side, square built, and not more than 12 or 14 feet 
high. One of them was blown down completely, and the other 
partially. What has often before been remarked of storms 
was exemplified also in this, that its most violent effects were 
exhibited in situations that seemed very low, sheltered, and 
secure. A singular illustration of this remark was presented 
at the building called the Linen Hall, on the top of which is 
a little dome or cupola, surmounted by a slender and delicate 
model of a spinning-wheel; while many of the low places I 
have spoken of were visited with such tremendous effect, and 
while even the roof of this building itself was stripped of its 
slates in many places, both back and front, this little spimning- 
wheel, though high in the air, supported on a slender stem, 
and quite unsheltered, was wholly uninjured. 
There are two points, however, which deserve a special 
notice, from the very peculiar action on them 1 have already 
alluded to. One was the office of Mr. Gleeson, the ship-agent, 
which is in a low angle, at the foot of a flight of stone steps, 
near the Swivel Bridge. Here there is a window about 12 or 
14 feet wide, by 10 in height. This window was covered with 
shutters outside, and barred and bolted. The people were 
gone home; all the doors were shut, and there was no chim- 
ney nor fire-place in the room. When the storm had passed, 
