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ftruction, as I fliall prefen tly relate. About 3 or 4 
rods before it came to the houfe, it took up an apple- 
tree by the roots, and carried it into the y-ard before 
the houfe. After palling the houfe, and throwing 
down the fences, and feveral trees, which flood in 
its courfe, it feemed, by the effects, to have altered 
its direction a little more to the eaftward. In this 
direction, it palled through a field of grain, in which 
it made a lane of 8 or 10 rods wide; from whence it 
proceeded through a fwamp, where, by a view from 
the fide of it, it appeared to have made great havock ; 
and after this, it palled over a pond about half a mile 
diftant from the houfe. No effects of it were vifible 
upon the ground to a greater diftance than 4 miles 
from the houfe, north-eaftward, or about 6 miles 
from the place where it began. 
To come now to the deftrudtion of the houfe. 
This was in the form of an _l ; one part fronting the 
fouth, on the country road, from which it flood back 
about 2 rods; the other part fronting the call. In 
the middle of the fouth front was a door, diftant 
from the chimney about 4 feet. Behind the eaftern. 
room was the kitchen, the chimney of which Hood 
at the north end ; and the door of it was in the eaftern 
front. The houfe was of wood, two llories high ; 
and both the chimneys of Hone. Near the houfe 
were a fhop and fmall Ihed ; and the barn Hood on 
the oppofite fide of the road, fouth, about 10 rods 
diftant. As foon as they perceived the ftorm coming 
near the houfe, fome men within endeavoured to Ihut 
the fouth door ; but before they could effedt it, they 
1 were furprized by the falling of ftones around them, 
from the top of that chimney, which was in the 
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