ga6 Account of a Storm in New Hampshire. 
T. renewed his labor ; but soon it was heard to cry in the direc- 
_ tion of the wind. Such as could run, ran in search of it, and 
soon found it lying safe upon the ground beneatha sleigh bottom, 
ten or fifteen rods from where the house had stood. The news- 
paper says one hundred rods, but this is incorrect. When the 
wind came, the sleigh was in the barn, six or eight rods north 
or northwesterly from the house. The two last mentioned 
houses were one story, well built, and well furnished dwellings. 
Their materials were not merely separated, but broken, splinter- 
ed, reduced to kindling wood, and scattered like the chaff of the 
summer thrashing floors. It was the same with furniture, beds, 
bedding, bureaus, chairs, tables, and the like. A loom was, to 
a EE carried whole about forty rods, and then dashed in 
: The width of the desolation here was about twenty or 
paenky five rods. On the higher grounds over which it passed 
it was forty, fifty, or sixty rods: The deeper the valley, the nar- 
rower and, more violent was the current. From the last men- 
tioned neighborhood it passed on to the east part of Warner, but 
met with no other dwelling houses, and did but little damage, 
except to fences and forests. 'The appearance of the ground 
where it passed, was as if a mighty torrent had swept over it, up 
hill as well as down. Near the boundary, between Warner aul 
Boscawen, the desolation ceased. It was taken up from the 
earth, but spruce floor boards, which were taken from New Lon- 
don, were borne upon its bosom and dropped in the Shaker vil- 
lage i in Canterbury, a distance of about thirty miles. In follow- 
ing its track in Kearsarge gore, I came to a considerable stream 
of water, across which had been a bridge, covered with large 
oak logs, splitin the middle, mstead of planks. These half logs 
were scattered in every direction, some carried, I should think, 
ten rods in the direction from which the wind came,—others 
sixty rods in the direction it went, and others were dropped near 
the margin at the right and left. You will see by this, they 
were carried along by the whirl-of the wind until jn reached 
the circumference, and then fell to the ground. 
Hundreds: of people came from a distance of ten or twenty 
miles to view the scene of desolation. There-were men of sound 
judgment from Concord, who gave it as ‘their opinion, that it 
would have thrown down the massy walls of the State prison. 
