~o Mr. Bry done’s Account , &c. 
blew the mod violent tempeft I ever remember in this country. 
The young crop of turneps, in many fields, were blown out 
of the ground, and almoft entirely deftroyed. The peafe be- 
came brown as if withered, and fo did the leaves of the forefl 
trees on that fide which was oppofed to the blaft. Vaft clouds of 
dull: were raifed from the dry fields and roads, which looked 
like fmoke, and had the appearance at a diftance as if many 
villages had been on fire all over the country. The water 
too was raifed from the furface of the river, and carried quite 
away by the violence of the hurricane, forming fm all clouds 
in the air, which we traced to a great difiance. The great 
violence of this tempefi lafted but a few hours, and at night it 
fell calm. The barometer was little aftefled, and flood at 29 
inches and a half. The wind was nearly weft, veering fome- 
times a little to the north. From this time we had a trafl of 
very fine weather, the wind conftantly in the weft points, till 
the time of the earthquake (which happened on what is called 
the laft of the dog days), when it changed to the fouth-eaft, 
and brought us five of the worft days I ever remember to have 
feen at that feafon ; it rained almoft inceflantly, with a cold 
eafterly wind, and the fun did not once appear till the morning 
of Wednefdav the 1 6th , after which we had again a trafl of 
fine weather. I examined the barometer at the time of the 
earthquake, but did not find that it had been fenfibly aftefled. 
It rofe a little on that morning ; but this I imputed to the 
wind having changed into the eaft. 
