breaking the higher pine trees off in the middle, 

 and the tall young oaks and walnut trees of good 

 bigness were wound like a withe, very strange 

 and fearful to behold. It began in the southeast 

 and parted toward the south and east, and veered 

 sundry ways; but the greatest force of it here 

 was from the former quarters. It continued not 

 (in the extreme) above 5 or 6 hours, but the 

 violence began to abate. The signs and marks 

 of it will remain this 100 years in these parts 

 where it was sorest. The moon suffered a great 

 eclipse the second night after it." 



The following excerpt is quoted from Governor John Winthrop's 

 "Journal" 1630 to I6h9: 



"-jHc-x-About eight of the clock the wind came 

 about to Northwest very strong, and, it being then 

 about high water, by nine the tide was fallen about 

 3 feet. Then it began to flow again about one ho\ir, 

 and rose about 2 or 3 feet, which was conceived to 

 be, that the sea was grown so high abroad with the 

 Northeast wind, that, meeting with the ebb, it forced 

 it back again. 



"This tempest [was not so far as Cape Sable, 

 but to the south more violent, and made a double 

 tide all that coast. 



"The tide rose at Narragansett fourteen feet 

 higher than ordinary and drowned 6 Indians flying 

 from their wigwams." 



b. 3 August 1638 . From Governor John Winthrop's 1" Journal", 

 1630 to 16U9. 



"In the night was a very great tempest or 

 hiracano at Southwest which drave a ship on ground 

 at Charlestown, and brake downj the vrindmill there, 

 and did much other damage. It flowed twice in 6 

 hours, and about Narragansett it raised the tide 

 lU or 1$ feet above the ordinary spring tides, 

 i:?5right." 



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