L E T T E R IX. a^i 



It blew extremely hard at the Ground, fo that 

 we could fcarce keep upon our Legs, yet the 

 Clouds looked like Rags, and hung feeming- 

 ly motionlefs in the Air, and the Heavens 

 towards the Eye of the Wind, /. e, Eaftward, 

 appeared as black and difmal as if the univerfal 

 Frame of Nature was juft going to be diffolved. 

 We then put off our wet Cloaths, and kept in 

 our Dwelling-houfe, expecting the worft ; For 

 the Rain and Wind grew much more vehement 

 till ten o' Clock, when to our joy, it broke into 

 loud Claps of Thunder, and large Flallies of 

 Lightning, which are certain Symptoms of the 

 Storm's being at its height, and of courfe that wc 

 might (as we were inclined) fafely go to Bed. 

 Early the next morning we got up, and found 

 the Wind vaftly abated, though it flill brought 

 in a moft monftrous fwelling Sea into our Road, 

 at Charles Town, fo that the Ship which had put 

 out into the wide Ocean for fear of being drove 

 afhore, durft not return till three days after. 

 N. jB. We had one of thefe Storms every Year, 



1 8. Though the Earth was fufficiently refrefh- 

 ed with the abundance of Rain that fell ; yet give 

 me leave to tell you, that all our fine Trees and 

 Baflies were entirely ftripped of their Leaves, and 

 looked as if a Fire had run thorough and fcorched 

 them to death j according to Milton^ Book i . line 

 612. 



