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on the kitchen floor, near to, and partly under, the 
eah door, which was blown down upon them, as 
they were endeavouring to fhut it. The mihrefs of 
the houfe, with a child in her arms, and two others, 
being in the kitchen, near a paflage into the cellar, 
were forced down feveral hairs, where they were 
found ; the woman being fhghtly hurt by fome 
pieces of boards, which fell upon her. A child, 
handing near the chimney, was buried in its ruins 5 
but happily preferved by a piece of board, which, 
falling obliquely againh the jamb, fecured it from 
* the falling hones. Befides the perfons in the houfe, 
there was a girl, about feven years old, before the 
fouth door, the prefervation of whofe life was not 
lefs remarkable. She was taken up from before the 
door by the wind, and carried above 30 rods. The 
people there are perfuaded, hie was carried over the 
tops of trees, being firh feen running towards the 
houfe, in the edge of a thick wood, feveral rods from 
the courfe of the wind • having fuhered no other in- 
jury,. than breaking the collar-bone. 
From the whole, it feems highly probable, that 
the houfe was fuddenly plucked off from the fills (to 
which the upright pohs arc not fahened), and taken 
up into the air, not only above the heads of the per- 
fons, who were on the lower floor, but to the height 
of thofe parts of the chimneys, which were left hand- 
ing, where, by the violent circular motion of the 
air, it was immediately hurled into ten thoufand 
pieces, and fcattered to great dihances, on all quarters, 
except that, from which the wind proceeded. And it 
farther appears, that the violence of. the wind in that 
place 
