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3. Accounts showing the force of the wind in . several parts of 
Massachusetts. 
54, Abingdon. Church destroyed.—South Peal Steeple 
blown down.— Wareham. Steeple blown down. —Cambridze- 
port. Three dwellings demolished.—Dorchester. Seventeen 
houses unroofed, sixty chimneys blown over, and. five thousand 
trees prostrated.—Cape Towns. No accounts of severe damage 
except at Sandwich.—Chelsea. Elm tree seventeen feet in girth, 
blown down.—Marblehead. Fourteen vessels on shore.—G'lou= 
cesier. Vessels ashore, and buildings blown down:—Davvers. 
Storm violent, not greatly destructive. Pear tree imported and 
transplanted by Gov. Endicott in 1680 stripped of half its branch- 
es. Oaks that braved the tempest one hundred years thrown 
down.—Andover. Spray of salt water reached it, giving every 
thing it descended upon a saltish taste, and blighting every fibre 
of vegetation.— Newburyport. Ornamental trees suffered much ; 
buildings injured.—Jpswich. Less damage done to vessels than 
other parts of our shore—Lynn. Buildings suffered —Wenham. 
Steeple blown down.—Saugus. Severe, trees blown down, 
barns, &c.— Wells. One man killed by falling of a tree. 
55. I subjoin the table which I constructed, at the time of col- 
lecting the accounts, for the purpose of presenting a view of the 
storm simultaneously in different places, during the forenoon of 
the 23d September, 1815. 
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