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the houses and other obstacles within the city, presenting 

 different degrees of resistance to the lateral currents, there 

 may very probably be some points in which great violence 

 was exerted in directions varying from the general course 

 of action. None were seen with the tops from the centre 

 of the path. Another fact to this point is, that Dr. Jane- 

 way's barn, a frame building, which was on the southerly 

 part of the track, was unroofed, and the remaining part of 

 the structure, with its contents, removed bodily three or 

 four feet to the northward. All the herbage, shrubs and 

 trees in its immediate vicinity, arid the trees of Kirkpatrick's 

 garden, were found lying with their heads in a northerly or 

 northeasterly direction. Similar to the case of the barn just 

 mentioned, was that of Bishop's store, near the river, which, 

 standing on the northern border, had been lifted from its 

 foundation about four or five feet towards the south. A 

 row of poplar trees which had been prostrated in the lower 

 part of the city, and on the northern part of the path was 

 observed as a striking exemplification of the application of 

 lateral force, every tree taking in its fall a southerly direc- 

 tion. Another evidence of lateral inward currents, was 

 found in the appearance of many forest trees, east of the 

 river, which, though too far removed from the central line 

 of the path to be uprooted, were still so much within the 

 range of the lateral forces as to have their outside limbs, or 

 those most remote from the central line, broken off by the 

 effect of cross strain; while no similar fracture was seen on 

 limbs turned towards the centre of the path. This result 

 will be easily understood, when we consider the well known 

 difference between breaking a limb by cross strain and that 

 of drawing it asunder by simple longitudinal tension. 



Another fact indicative of the direction of currents from 

 the sides inward, was noticed on the plain, east of the Rar- 

 itan, where the fragments of boards, shingles, ribs, &c., 

 which had been brought from houses demolished in the city, 



