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 ome of them, indeed, were almot entirely tript their tiles.

"Human trength was mere weaknes when to this war of elements. A tout young, who had witneed the cene in the barn- from an apprehenion that the houe mut  be tumbled down, run out for afety. The  enemy, however, lifted him over a wall  feet high, and carried him forwards for thirty  forty yards!-Several of the ervants were  driven about, ome in one direction and ome in , according to the eddy. The hores  cattle upon the farm exhibited the liveliet  of alarm and agitation.

"The dwelling houe at Whitelaw, in which family reided at the time, hook with uch  as to threaten its detruction and theirs., however, amidt all the devatation, no  was materially hurt; and, what renders this  more remarkable is, that the tiles which were  from the urrounding offices fell from an  height, in vat numbers, among the people  to the torm.

"Before the cloud reached the farm houe it fortunately divided, and the two parts taking  directions, only one of them truck the  Had the whole collected force dicharged itelf  once, few, it is probable, would have urvived  relate the particulars.

"There was little rain at Whitelaw either before or after the whirlwind; but in  adjacent country, to the north and eat, owing,  uppoed, to the violent concuion of the clou there was a torrent of rain, and in ome places h for a few minutes, as had not been oberved in memory of man.—Edinburgh Weekly Journal, No.