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The Natural Fiftory of the Book I. 
began, the ‘Wind 
The Afternoon, when the Violence of the Storm re ETRE 
was high and varying, almoft in an Inftant, to every (2 8) P. oS a fal 
Compafs ; but fettled chiefly. at North, being attended with area 
Rain, Thunder, and Lightning, ‘eh Pankss 
The Sea, where not guarded with high Clifts, overflowed its anks, 
in fome Places, above an Hundred Yards. 
The Day-light, while it lafted, as Milton exprefies it, 
Serv'd only to difcover Sights of Woe; 
* 
for there was nothing to be feen but one rueful Spectacle of almoft uni- 
verfal Ruin. i 
If one looked in to the Land, Behold, Darkne/s, and Sorrow, and the 
Light was darkened in the Heavens thereof. ; 
The Night, as it came on, was ufhered in with an almoft continued 
rumbling Noife in the Air, with the Increafe of Wind, Rain, Thunder, 
and Lightning ; efpecially the latter, which now with redoubled Force, 
darted not with its ufual fhort-lived Flafhes, but in rapid Flames, skim- 
ming over the Surface of the Earth, as well as mounting to the upper 
Regions. 
The next (29) Morning, when the Storm was abated, the whole Ifland 
afforded a lively, but terrible, Idea of the Tenth Egyptian Plague of old ; 
for there was {carce a Houfe but lamented one dead in it, or in general 
fomething equal, or worfe. ; 
Several Families were intirely buried in the Ruins of their Houfes; 
and there were few that efcaped, but with the Lofs either of fome Rela- 
tion, Friend, or Acquaintance. 
Thefe, 
(28) There was not an Houfe left in Speights Town, whofe Roof was not blown off. i 
above the Town, at an Eftate, now in the Poffeflion of Mr. Andrew Derry, whofe Ree eae Fates 
off, the Violence of the Wind was fo great, that he and_his Bride, up one Pair of Stairs (being married 
but that Evening), were carried from their Bed by the Force of the Wind, and thrown into a prickl 
Pimploe-Hedge ; in which uncomfortable Situation, they were both found next Morning unable e aftit 
themfelves. Likewife one Humphry Waterman, then an nfant, was found as foon as the Storm ‘was ov: 
with his Arm broken, and in that Condition fucking his dead Mother, killed by the Lightning or Sto a 
There are many Inftances that might be given of the great and deftructive Force of SiSheE 3 eff eciall 
Bee which ines ig a Repos Cambyfes, which was fo violent, that it raifed the Sand in the De 
art between Egypt and Ethiopia, fo as to cover and ; F 4 
eat woh were intended lett the Exhiopians. oo pee tees SHY SoRae Ob Fifty thoufand 
n the above-mentioned Hurricane in this Ifland, there were Seve illed i ; 
that Part of the Ifland called Scotland. I have thefe Informations fon aan Pots fecacericnte, he 
Ifand, and who were, at the time of the Hutricane, of fufficient Age both to remember. it oat aie 
Remarks on, the Violence of the Storm, and the Occurrences that then happened 2, Ane make thels 
(29) It is here reported, that, during this Hurricane, one Mrs. Grosme, a Midwife in S ig? 
Parifh, living upon the Eftate of Mr. Thomas Hardin, endeavouring to go from her Dwelli in St. PLilp’s 
houfe, was fnatched up by a Whirlwind, and carried through the Air to a great Diftan she pate 
where fhe was found many Hours afterwards grafping the Roots of a large Tree newl tee om Home, 
Thofe here, who believe this Relation, urge, in favour of their Belief, that heed rary ae 
Inftances of as great Storms, which have been frequent at Rome, at Capua, at Lavini Rep Ae damit 
Places of Tia. See Dicerts Siult, Vol Tl, Lib. XU, a ‘um, and feveral other 
owever, I leave the Reader at Liberty to judge for himfelf, 
Probability, and whether any fimilar Tnltence® fon good autho Pate 
confirm it ? v 
Inftance is confiftent wi 
nfiftent with 
be brought to countenance, if nog 
