I. An Account of an extraordinary Stream of 
Wind, which pot thro * Part of the Paripes 
of Termonomungan and Urn ey, in the 
County of Tyrone, on Wednefday O&ober 
ii, 1752. by Wm. Henry, D. D. ReElor 
of the Parip of Urney : Communicated by 
the right honourable the Lord Cadogan, 
R R. S. 
Read Jan. ii7 | 'HE air for the whole day was ferene 
1 ' X an( l ca ^ m i fometimes a gentle breeze 
from the fouth-eaft. About four of the dock in the 
afternoon, the fky feemed to open ; and there was a 
flafh of lightning from the fouth-eaft. In the fpace of 
half an hour after, there was heard thunder, as at a 
great diftance, from the fame point. About five the 
fky was a little overcaft with clouds ; but the air con- 
tinued in a dead calm. On a fudden there was 
heard a violent rufhing noife ; the Iky feemed to open, 
and emitted a flafh of l ightning, but no noife of thun- 
der ; and a ftream of wind inftantly enfued, the vio- 
lence of which nothing Could refift. 
This ftream of wind, fo far as can be traced by 
the effeds, arofe from a glin called Allgolan, and 
continued its courfe for three miles from fouth-eaft 
to north-weft. The violent current of it feemed to 
be confined to a fpace about 16 feet in breadth, and 
the whole body of the air in motion did not exceed 
fixty feet, as may be computed from fome of the fol- 
lowing particulars, which happened in the little 
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