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■was satisfied, they were generally intent upon getting help to 

 repau" their habitations." 



The extent of the destruction was so great that the price of tiles 

 rose several pounds per thousand j bricklayer's labour also rose, 

 and many of the householders were obliged " to patch up their 

 dwellings with boards, tarpaulins, old sails and straw ; regular 

 repairs being in many instances, at the time, wholly impossible." 

 De Foe says that " an incredible number of houses remained all 

 the winter exposed to all the inconveniences of wet and cold," 

 and, at the time of his writing this, he thought " they were like 

 to continue so, perhaps a year or two longer, for want of tiles." 



In tnith, the damage done by tliis storm in all ways — the loss 

 of life — the loss of sliijiping — and the money value of the property 

 destroyed — was awful in the extreme. 



" Above 2,000 stacks of chimnies were supposed to have been 

 blown down in and about London, besides gable ends of houses, 

 some whole roofs, and sixteen or twenty whole houses in the out- 

 parts." Many were the Hves lost from these accidents, the stacks 

 of chinmies in some cases falling tlu'ough all the floors to the 

 bottom of the buildings. 



" The fall of brick-walls, by the fury of tliis tempest, in and 

 about London," De Foe says, " woidd make a little book of itself." 

 The public edifices of the city, also, were terribly shattered and 

 knocked about. "A part of her Majesty's palace, with a 

 stack of cliimnies in the centre of the new buildings, then not 

 quite finished, fell with such a terrible noise as very much 

 alarmed the whole household. The lead on the tops of the 

 churches and other buildings was in many places rolled up like a 

 roll of parchment, and in some instances blown clear off" from the 

 buildings as at Westminster Abbey" — and elsewhere. Other 

 churches lost turrets, spires and pinnacles, all carried away by the 

 force of the wind. 



The number of trees and buildings thrown down in different 

 parts of the country were incalculable. De Fue himself, 



