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unavoidable Deftrudion of fuch Ships as are in their 
way, if they be fmall Veflels, and to their great Dam- 
age be they never fo big: Sometimes on the Shoar, 
beating down all they meet with, and raifing the Sand 
and Stones to a prodigious height. 'lis faid, that Vet 
fels that have any Force ufually fire their Guns at them 
loaden with a Bar of Iron, and if they be fo happy as 
to ftrike them, the Water is prefently feen to run out 
of them with a might noift, but no further mifchief. 
Ours happened Tuefclayhi!iy the 7/^. of Augufl^ 1694. be- 
tween Nine and Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon,- 'twas 
then very near, if not quite low Woter, which is lookc 
on as a fpecial Providence, fince had it been High Water^ 
'tis concluded its ftrength would have been much grea- 
ter, and its confequences more fad. The Water that 
was near it feemed to fly hither and thither, as though 
'twould fain make its efcape from it : Yet I cannot find 
upon Enquiry that the Channel was at all wholly dry. 
There was alfo fome Wind, though not fo violent as it 
had been before,- and when the Spout or Tromt? began 
to move, it went with the Wind like a dark fmoak, and 
the Wind being then W. N. W. its courfe Vv^as E. S. E 
I have fent you a rude Draught of the manner of its 
pafTage after it began to move, according to the befi 
Information I could get, for I was not at home when it 
happened. ' " . " ^ 
The marks + + + ihew the River, the Letter O 
the Spout. The Letter S Mr. Seaward's Houfe ( wha 
was an Eye-witne(s of it ) which it gently touched with, 
little or no Damage, blowing only off a few Tiles, 
The Letter G the Houfe of one Widdow Goldfworthy 
which it in part uncovered, took off almoft all the 
Thatch of her Garden Wall, brake down a large Limb 
of a Plumb-Tree which flood at the higher end of her 
Garden, and which is more Remarkable than ail the 
F reft, 
