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took its course towards Chebacco pond, levelling some 

 pine and other trees, till it reached Essex doing but 

 slight damage there and so passed out to sea. 



What is not a little remarkable, is the occurrence the 

 same afternoon in the interior of the State of a similar or 

 the same cyclone, of which the following account appears 

 in the newspapers. 



" A terrible tornado passed through the towns of Pax- 

 ton, Holden and West Boylston, Sunday afternoon, de- 

 molishing every building in its track and tearing up trees 

 by the roots. In the town of Paxton it demolished the 

 barn of L. N. Parkhurst and blew off one gable of his 

 dwelling house. From there it went in a northeasterly 

 direction, and blew down the buildings of Mr. Bigelow, 

 on the old town farm. Thence it went through the woods 

 sweeping all before it and striking the house and barn of 

 Lewis Martin, in Holden, entirely demolishing both. 

 The village of Holden was next taken in its destructive 

 march, and here five barns, three houses, and one car- 

 penter shop were blown down. Three persons were in- 

 jured, one, Charles Burrett seriously. A strip of heavy 

 stone wall, some twenty rods in length, was completely 

 blown over, and la$*ge trees were blown thirty rods, with 

 upward of a ton of earth upon their roots. The tornado 

 appeared to move at the rate of seven miles an hour and 

 was not more than ten rods in width." 



Mr. Dodge then stated that in his opinion these cyclones 

 were one and the same, that at the interior being the be- 

 ginning of that which ended at Essex, and for this opinion 

 he gave the following reasons. 



1st. The direction in which they passed was the same. 

 By drawing a straight line on the large map of the 

 Stete published by the Legislature a few years since, 

 through Paxton, Holdeii and West Boylston, it would 



