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 y of the inhabitants are obliged to purchae at the exhorbitant price of a bit for ix ears, ly to keep their laves from perihing until r provifions can be procured.

is yet impoible to ay what number of lives been lot in this dreadful calamity; but they t be numerous; in one plantain boat only,  perons perihed; as did the crew of the Ruby’s  at Port Royal, in endeavouring to ait a   ditres oon after the torm came on. Edinburgh. Advertier, Nov. 6, 1781.

. The following intereting account of this awful phænomenon, which took place at, in the parih of Ednam, Berwickhire, e 3d curt we copy from the Kelo Mail.

The weather through the day had been calm, oft howers. At even o’clock in the there was oberved by many people, a little to  -wet of Mr. Tod’s houe at Whitelaw, ene light coloured cloud of a very uncommon. It reembled an inverted cone, from the ground to a coniderable height in the iphere. Its motion towards the houe was low majetic, a peron of no great agility on eeing   could eaily have ecaped from it. It n at length to whirl round with great rapidity. with a loud rattling noie. The effect amazing power was firt exhibited upon a large  of traw in the barn yard, which it raied in  mas to a coniderable height in the air. A n of timber, lying flat on the ground, was  it’s place everal feet; and it will be thought ft to exceed credibility when it is mentioned,  this beam was thirty-three feet long! Small es were heaped together in mounds as if by od. The farm offices were materially injured;