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16 one of the most awful phenomena in dispensation of Providence—an  C. and I were sitting chatting together  supper, when we were suddenly  by one of the most sudden and  percussions I had ever felt, and which suggested to us the cause. I think of nothing that could give so  an idea of what we felt, as that of a  being on the back of a horse, when he  and violently shakes himself. flew to the street, where we found every inhabitant, women and  screaming, and a very   of them naked. Many flew to fields. and there remained for the great part of the night. Chimney-tops thrown down or damaged in  quarter of the town. The Lodge, occupied as an hotel, was rent  top to bottom, the north stalk of the  partly thrown down—one of the  stones, weighing, I should think, from  to sixty pounds, was thrown to the  side of the street, a distance not less  sixty feet. The spire of the steeple, I think one of the handsomest in  has been seriously injured, and must  part be taken down. The spire is an ; and within five or six feet of  top, the angles of the octagon are