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camejlown at various distances, some into another timber- 

 yard about 200 yards off. I saw a great number of the planks 

 and two of the rafters of the shed at this latter place ; the 

 rafters were 1 8 feet long, 9 inches wide, and 3 inches thick — 

 one of them coming down endways, had entered the earth to 

 a considerable depth, and was broken short off. The roofs of 

 many of the houses, and stories in the track I have mentioned, 

 were stripped of their slates to a greater or less, in some in- 

 stances to a very considerable extent. In one place, two 

 chimneys were pointed out to me, in a low situation, attached 

 to a bakery ; they were of great strength, being from 3 to 4 

 feet in the side, square built, and not more than 12 or 14 feet 

 high. One of them was blown down completely, and the other 

 partially. What has often before been remarked of storms 

 was exemplified also in this, that its most violent effects were 

 exhibited in situations that seemed very low, sheltered, and 

 secure. A singular illustration of this remark was presented 

 at the building called the Linen Hall, on the top of which is 

 a little dome or cupola, surmounted by a slender and delicate 

 model of a spinning-wheel ; while many of the low places I 

 have spoken of were visited with such tremendous effect, and 

 while even the roof of this building itself was stripped of its 

 slates in many places, both back and front, this little spinning- 

 wheel, though high in the air, supported on a slender stem, 

 and quite unsheltei'ed, was wholly uninjured. 



There are two points, however, which deserve a special 

 notice, from the very peculiar action on them 1 have already 

 alluded to. One was the office of Mr. Gleeson, the ship-agent, 

 which is in a low angle, at the foot of a flight of stone steps, 

 near the Swivel Bridge. Here there is a window about 12 or 

 1 4 feet wide, by 1 in height. This window was covered with 

 shutters outside, and barred and bolted. The people were 

 gone home ; all the doors were shut, and there was no chim- 

 ney nor fire-place in the room. When the storm had passed, 



