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the progrefs of the wind could not be followed, 
without great difficulty ; though, by the appearance 
of the fwamp from the hill, the violence feems to 
have been increafed. After palling the fwamp, it 
llruck the open fide of a hill with prodigious force. 
Here lay a great number of large hones, many of 
which were thrown out of the beds they had made ; 
particularly one, judged to be near 150 ib, was moved 
from its place 3 or 4 feet; and others, which were 
fmaller, to greater diftances. Here alfo lay the trunk 
of a great tree, ai feet in diameter at the butt-end, 
and about 40 feet long, which was rolled over, one' 
turn, out of its bed, toward the upper part of the 
hill. The trees on the fide of this hill, and in a 
valley to the fouth of it, did not hand thick, but 
were, in general, large : moh of thefe were torn up 
by the roots, and thrown down in almoh all di- 
rections ; many at right angles to the courfe of the 
wind, fome with their tops fouth-eah, others north- 
eah; one, which had been broken off about 10 feet 
from the ground, lay with its top about fouth-weh, 
that is, contrary to the courfe of the wind. The 
current of air at that place was judged to have been 
about 40 rods wide, from the fide of the hill acrofs 
the valley before-mentioned ; its greateh violence 
being, by its effects, difcernible along the lide of the 
hill. Having then palled over fome clear land, for 
about half a mile, on which it left no other marks- 
than part of a corn-field levelled, and the done- walla 
and fences thrown down, it came to the dwelling- 
houfe of one David Lynde, the only one, which 
flood in its way : upon this it fell with the utmofi 
fury, and, in a moment, eiFedted its complete de- 
ftruCtion, 
