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TORNADO.
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land belonging to Mr. Ralph Norton, it took off one stack
of chimneys, and the upper floor of one end of the house,
and untiled nearly all the rest; a large barn, a coach-house
of stone walls two feet thick; a large (but which appeared
to have been a crazy) old building of offices belonging to the
house, and all the trees in a pretty large orchard, except two
or three, were blown down.
Descending about a furlong below Mr. Norton’s house,
it sw'ept down the timber in a small coppice, passed over a
rivulet, and drove up a gill (a gill is a small rivulet with a
sharp ascent on both sides) into the Forwood, a large quan-
tity of woodlands, near a mile over, in its way, belonging to
Thomas Pelham, Esq. of Lewes; but the underwoods being
advanced to such a considerable height, and so large a quan-
tity lying in the way of its course, I dare not venture to give
an estimate of the number of timber trees that now bear the
badge and marks of its fury. Adjoining the Forwood, on
the north side, it ran through some woodlands belonging to
Forster of Telham, but left his house upon the western verge
of its course.
After shattering a gill of fine young timber near Loose,
it turned down a chimney at the west end of the house,
which belongs to Sir Thomas Webster, Bart, and pretty
much damaged the tiling, blow’ed down a barn near the
house, and a malt-house ; besides most of the apple-trees
were taken out of the ground and scattered about the
orchard ; two w ere carried together in one hedge, and a
pretty large one carried over one hedge, and into the next.
In a closet on the west side, of the house, lay some butcher’s
wooden skewers, that were carried from the closet across a
large parlour, and stuck fast in a piece of oak timber in the
parlour w’all. In the same closet, a pot was placed in a
pair of scales that hung against a wall on the other side of the
room, in the same position as it stood before. Here, and
likewise at most of the other houses that had the misfortune
to lie in the way of the tempest, they had all the doors and
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land belonging to Mr. Ralph Norton, it took off one stack
of chimneys, and the upper floor of one end of the house,
and untiled nearly all the rest; a large barn, a coach-house
of stone walls two feet thick; a large (but which appeared
to have been a crazy) old building of offices belonging to the
house, and all the trees in a pretty large orchard, except two
or three, were blown down.
Descending about a furlong below Mr. Norton’s house,
it sw'ept down the timber in a small coppice, passed over a
rivulet, and drove up a gill (a gill is a small rivulet with a
sharp ascent on both sides) into the Forwood, a large quan-
tity of woodlands, near a mile over, in its way, belonging to
Thomas Pelham, Esq. of Lewes; but the underwoods being
advanced to such a considerable height, and so large a quan-
tity lying in the way of its course, I dare not venture to give
an estimate of the number of timber trees that now bear the
badge and marks of its fury. Adjoining the Forwood, on
the north side, it ran through some woodlands belonging to
Forster of Telham, but left his house upon the western verge
of its course.
After shattering a gill of fine young timber near Loose,
it turned down a chimney at the west end of the house,
which belongs to Sir Thomas Webster, Bart, and pretty
much damaged the tiling, blow’ed down a barn near the
house, and a malt-house ; besides most of the apple-trees
were taken out of the ground and scattered about the
orchard ; two w ere carried together in one hedge, and a
pretty large one carried over one hedge, and into the next.
In a closet on the west side, of the house, lay some butcher’s
wooden skewers, that were carried from the closet across a
large parlour, and stuck fast in a piece of oak timber in the
parlour w’all. In the same closet, a pot was placed in a
pair of scales that hung against a wall on the other side of the
room, in the same position as it stood before. Here, and
likewise at most of the other houses that had the misfortune
to lie in the way of the tempest, they had all the doors and