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 ſome of them, indeed, were almoſt entirely ſtript their tiles.

"Human ſtrength was mere weakneſs when to this war of elements. A ſtout young, who had witneſsed the ſcene in the barn- from an apprehenſion that the houſe muſt neceſsarily be tumbled down, run out for ſafety. The  enemy, however, lifted him over a wall  feet high, and carried him forwards for thirty  forty yards!-Several of the ſervants were  driven about, ſome in one direction and ſome in , according to the eddy. The horſes  cattle upon the farm exhibited the livelieſt ſymptoms of alarm and agitation.

6. The dwelling houſe at Whitelaw, in which family reſided at the time, ſhook with ſuch  as to threaten its deſtruction and theirs. Providentially, however, amidſt all the devaſtation, no perſon was materially hurt; and, what renders this more remarkable is, that the tiles which were from the ſurrounding offices fell from an  height, in vaſt numbers, among the people  to the ſtorm.

"Before the cloud reached the farm houſe it fortunately divided, and the two parts taking  directions, only one of them ſtruck the  Had the whole collected force discharged itſelf  once, few, it is probable, would have ſurvived 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,  ſuppoſed, to the violent concuſſion of the  there was a torrent of rain, and in ſome places b for a few minutes, as had not been obſerved in memory of man.- Edinburgh Weekly Journal, No.