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The other account I had in view, is of a whirl- 
wind, which happened on Tuefday, the 10th of this 
inftant July, at Leicefter, a town in this province, 
fituated about 40 miles weft from hence. In point 
of violence, it feems to have equalled any, and ex- 
ceeded moft, that have happened in this country, fo 
far as I can judge by the accounts I have feen, and, 
indeed, moft, that, are recorded in the Philofophical 
Tranfadtions. I was very defirous to have gone myfelf, 
to take a view of its deftrudtive effects, but an infirm 
ftate of health has prevented me. However, I have 
received fuch informations from feveral gentlemen, 
who have been on the fpot, as enable me to give a 
particular account of itj in which I fhall relate no- 
thing but what, I am well allured, may be relied on 
as fadt. 
The morning of the 10th July with us, at Cam- 
bridge, was fair and hot, with a brifk gale at fouth- 
weft. The afternoon was cloudy. About five, it 
began to rain, and thundered once. At Leicefter, 
feveral people of credit fay, that about five o’clock 
the fky looked ftrangely ; that clouds from the fouth- 
weft and north-weft feemed to rufh together very 
fwiftly, and, immediately upon their meeting, com- 
menced a circular motion ; prefently after which, a 
terrible noife was heard. The whirlwind marched 
along from fouth-weft to north- weft. Its firft eftedts 
were difcernible on a hill, where feveral trees were 
thrown down, at confiderable diftances from each 
other. On the north-eaft fide of this hill, was a 
tree, which feemed to have been ftript of its limbs 
on the fouth fide, nearly from the top to the bottom. 
At the foot of the hill was a fwamp, through which 
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