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tegrity. Mr. Thomlinfon’s conjecture of the caufc 
of the leaves of trees appearing fcorched after the 
dorm, I believe to be true ; having two or three 
times myfelf obferved the fame in Sudex, at a con- 
fiderable didance from the fea ; when all the hedges, 
trees, and woods, on the fide toward the fea, have 
had their leaves fcorched, as if fire had paffed over 
them ; and their oppofite fides from the fea have 
continued in full verdure ; which frequently happens 
in dorms from the fouth-wed : and, upon tailing 
their leaves, I have found them as fait, as if they had 
been lleeped in brine. I am, 
/^N the 6th of laft month, at night, happened a 
moll violent hurricane, fuch an one, perhaps, 
as has not been known in thefe parts in any one’s 
memory. It lalled four hours at lead:, from about 
eleven till three. The damage it has done is very 
deplorable. The corn has fufferd prodigioudy. Stacks 
of hay and corn have been intirely fwept away : 
houfes unroofed, and in feveral places driven down 
by its fury : trees without number torn up by the 
roots ; others fnapt off by the middles, and their 
fragments fcattered over the adjoining fields. Some 
were twilled almoll round, or iplit down to the very 
S I R, 
Your mod obedient humble Servant, 
Chelfea, Nov. 23. 
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To Mr. Philip Miller. 
S I R, 
Wigton, Nov. 15. 1756. 
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ground ; 
