Stacks of corn and hay were in all places either blown down, or so torn, that they received great damage, and in this article it is very observable, those which were only blown down received the least injury; when the main body of a stack of hay stood safe, the top being loosened by the violence of the wind, the hay was driven up into the air, and flew about like feathers, that it was entirely lost, and hung about in the neighbouring trees, and spread on the ground for a great distance, and so perfectly separated, that there was no gathering it together.
Barley and oats suffered the same casualty, only that the weight of the corn settled it sooner to the ground than the hay.
As to the stacks of wheat, the accounts are very strange; from many places we have letters, and some so incredible
