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Weather,
Cumberland
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At Whitehaven, about three P.M. some tremendous peals
of thunder were heard, and considerable damage was done by
the lightning. At Rothersike Green, in Low Quarter, in the
parish of St. Bees, two heifers were killed; thirteen
others close by received no injury. Several ash-trees were
much damaged. Five sheep were killed on Castle-rig-fell,
near Keswick. One of them had the wool stripped off
one side, from the head to the tail. The electric matter had
taken a circular direction, and turned up the soil as with a
spade.
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