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down for over 500 yards. The doors and windows of the 
house were driven in by the wind and the flying missiles, 
and immediately the house went to pieces. The house and 
out-houses were carried away, broken to small pieces, and 
deposited fora mile or two along the path of the storm. 
The trees around the house, which were not plucked out by 
the roots, had their tops and branches broken off and their 
bark stripped from them. The stripping of the bark was 
Fig. 15 
evidently due to the causes already assigned. The stripping 
was most complete on the south-west side of the trees. A 
fence 400 yards in length, and running east and west, was 
deprived of its boards, the posts still remaining in the 
ground. Where the storm-centre crossed it, the dire¢tion 
toward which the posts were leaning was intermediate. On 
the west of the centre the posts were leaning south, with a 
little easting, and on the east of the storm-centre they were 
leaning north, with a little westing. 
Fic. 16. 
The above is something like the disposition of the posts 
along the line of the fence. The length of the fence thrown 
