320 Deaths. 



together m mounds, as if by a flood. The farm offices UTre 

 materially injured; fouie of them, indeed, were alniott en- 

 tirely ftript of their tiles. Human ftrength was mere wcak- 

 iiefs when oppofed to this war of the elements. A ftout 

 young fellow, who had witnefled the feene in the barn-yard, 

 from an apprehenfion that the houfe mufi; neceflarily be tum- 

 bled down, ran out for fafety. The refiftlefs enemy, how- 

 ever, lifted him over a wall five feet high, and carried Ijim 

 forwards 30 or 40 yards ! Several of the fervants were forcibly 

 driven about, fomc in one direiSlion and fome in another, 

 according to the eddy. The horfes and cattle upon the farm 

 exhibited the livelieft fymptoms of alarm and agitation. The 

 dwelling-houfe at Whitelaw, in v^hich the family refided at 

 the time, fliook with fuch violence as to threaten its own 

 dcftru6lion and theirs. Providentially, however, amidft all 

 the devaftation, no perfon was materially hurt ; and, what 

 renders this the more remarkable Is, that the tiles which 

 were torn from the furrounding offices fell from an immenfe 

 height, in vaft numbers, among the people expofed to the 

 ilorm. Before the cloud reached the farm-houfe it had for- 

 tunately divided, and the two parts taking different direc- 

 tions, only one of them ftruck the buildings. Mad the whole 

 coUeAcd force difcharged itielf at once, few, it is probable, 

 would have furvlved to relate the particulars. There was 

 little rain at Whitelaw either immediately before or after thq 

 whirlwind 5 but in the adjacent country, to the north and 

 cafl:, owing, it is fuppofcd, to the violent concuffion of the 

 clouds, there was fuch a torrent of rain, and, in fome places, 

 of hail for a few minutes, as had not been obfcrved in the 

 memory of man." 



DEATHS. 



After a few hours illnefs, on Saturday .July 6tTi, at 

 his houfe in Oxford-flrect, Revely the architcA; a man 

 of great attainments in his feience. He had followed the 

 §cps of Athenian Stuart in his travels through Greece and; 



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