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Accounts showing the force of the wi?id in several parts of 

 Massachusetts. 



54. Abingdon. Church destroyed. — South Reading. Steeple 

 blown down. — Wareham. Steeple blown down. — Cambridge- 

 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. — Glou- 

 cester. Vessels ashore, and buildings blown down. — Danvers. 

 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. — Ipswich. Less damage done to vessels than 

 other parts of our shore. — Lynn. Buildings suifered. — 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. 



