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the window-frame was found torn from its place and the glass 

 all shattered. But what was most singular, this was evidently 

 effected by a force acting from within. The bolts, which could 

 not be drawn, brought the window-frame with them six or 

 eight inches toicards the street, particularly at one end, and it 

 was clearly by the distortion of the frame the glass was broken, 

 as the shutters were not taken off at all — the injury was exactly 

 what one would expect to see if a quantity of gunpowder had 

 been exploded in the room, and had forced out the window 

 as the weakest point. The same circumstances almost exactly 

 took place, under similar conditions, with respect to a window 

 at Mr. Hogg's, situated near the angle between Honan's-quay 

 and Arthurs-quay, and looking out upon the latter. This 

 window is not so large as the one before spoken of, and the 

 effects were not so violent ; they were sufficiently so, however, 

 to break some of the panes, and the slighter parts of the win- 

 dow-sash, the fractures running in such directions as showed 

 that the force came from within. Indeed, it could hardly be 

 otherwise, as the shutters lay close on the outside, and gave 

 them complete protection. This was further proved by the 

 fact, that some windows in other parts of the same side of the 

 house, unprotected by shutters, had several panes broken, yet 

 not a trace of broken glass could be found anywhere, neither 

 in the room, on the window-sill, nor in the area below, nor on 

 the flags around it. Some towels also, and a sheet, carried 

 out of one of these windows, could never be found afterwards. 

 A singular instance of the force of the squall occurred at the 

 rere of the house, where a large piece of cast iron, of several 

 hundred-weight, lying against an open window, was blown 

 down by the blast, and shook the whole house in its fall. 



The circumstance I have spoken of, of the force in both 

 these cases acting from within, might be explained if one could 

 suppose a sudden and violent expansion of the air within the 

 room, occasioned by a vacuum, produced by some cause out- 



