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over a house without damaging it, although ton 
100 yards distant. A slate was carried .'ujcb / 
and forced against a window, the iron bar of |t 
Several houses were stripped ; and in one instane®> ^ 
ful gust, or stream of air, forced open a door, 
latch ; whence it passed through the entry, j bl^'* f 
the dairy door, overturned the milk pans, 
tne dairy door, overiurnea uie uiuk. ^-r 
three panes of glass. It next ascended to the c ^ gsly /■ 
)lew out nine other panes. Lastly, 
Hew out nine ouiei ftliC 
ixed two feet and a half in the ground, out ot 
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carried it many yards into the fields. 
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On the 30 th of October, 173I, at one m ^ ^^^6 
\JU UJC avjUl U1 A/vAJ, ^ P' M>' • 
a very sudden and terrific whirlwind, g-Al’,.,), ' 
two hundred yards, was experienced at Ce to' jjt 
Dorsetshire. From the soutlr-west side 0"^ 
passed to the north-east, crossing tlie centre, ‘ j 
the houses in its progress. It rooted up j j 
in the middle, of at least a foot square, 
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tops a considerable distance. A sign'P^Vpjjrieo y 
four, was broken off six feet in the pole, an 
street forty feet in breadth, over a house 
bireci luny icct in uictiu.ui, wcx « up 
pinnacles and battlements of one side of tl^-|.^^ 
were thrown down, and the leads and 
_ ; leaos anu > _g 01“,^ 
aisle broken in by their fall. A short time be o 
remarkably calm. It was estimated that 
rCmaiKaDiy cauu. XU waa ciaiJiAJflu.uA ^ ii>fy ] 
terrible gust did not last more than two ju «’ 
en luic HUB, uivi i.wL lu,.., ,1, ■ I , 
About the middle of August, 1741, 
in?, several peasants being on a heath ncai p, ^ 
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Norfolk, perceived, about a quarter of a ® 
wind like a whirlwind approach them 
j^lUCIL .11 1 . “T^‘“-,rh the ^ 
line from east to west. It passed through ' 
they were ploughing, and tore up the stuhDj^^pgtn- jU 
the ploughed ground, for two miles pcloSt*^or a' 
breadth of thirty yards. In reaching an 
top of a rising ground, it appeared like a 
top ot a rising grouna, 11 appeareu axe ^ p |, R f 
of fire, emitting smoke, and accompanied t’/ jnt<y 
to that of carts passing over a stony groun 
and after the wind passed, there was ^ 
ana aiLci .-..w... Oft tn'', ai 
sulphur ; and the noise was heard long „veh ^ 
been perceived. This fiery whirlwind m 
a 
forward, that it was nearly ten minutes m P 
the enclosure to a farm house in the vicn ; 
niuch mischief. 
