364 On the Saline Impregnation 
people but that the sea water was blown thus 
far, or that during the tempest the rain was 
salt; for all the twigs of the trees the day 
after were white and tasted very salt, as I 
am informed almost by every body, though I 
did not taste them time enough myself, nor 
observe it; and that not only upon this hill 
where we live facing the sea, but in all other 
places within 14 or 15 miles of the sea, as 
well as in the valleys, between which and the 
sea are several very high hills, as on the hills 
themselves.” 
This account of Mr. Fuller is followed by 
one of Mr. Derham of Upminster, Essex, 
respecting the same storm, which seems to 
have occurred in its greatest violence in the 
morning of the 27th Nov. 1703. Mr. Der- 
ham, after briefly describing the weather for 
several months preceding, adverts to the re- 
cent storm, which by the best estimate he 
could form, exceeded any previous one for 
five or six years, in regard to the velocity, or 
rather perhaps the force of the wind, in the 
ratio of 3 to 2. ; 
The concluding paragraph runs thus: “I 
have just received an account from a clergy- 
man, an intelligent person at Lewes, in Sus- 
sex, not only that the storm made great 
desolation thereabouts, but also an odd cir- 
