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rising families, was effected by the agency of 

 violent winds. 



But to quit the " presumptive" for the 

 circumstantial," a record of the ravages 

 which the storms that have visited our island 

 during the last five or six years have made, 

 will furnish an almost inexhaustible mass of 

 evidence, that there is in the action of the 

 wind a greater impediment to the growth of 

 timber than is generally imagined. The fol- 

 lowing striking and important instances may 

 however be deemed sufficient : — Chichester, 

 October 13th. — We have experienced much 

 boisterous weather in the early part of the 

 week ; on Sunday morning, about seven 

 o'clock, when the gale was at its height, and 

 had left marks of its ravages between here and 

 Arundle, a fine elm, at the Dairy House of 

 Mr. W. Field, of Rumbold's Whyke, was 

 snapped off at twelve feet from the ground, 

 and the head driven rolling across the meadow 

 until stopped by a strong fence. Trees, ricks, 

 and buildings were damaged in every part of 



