the Hail broke vaft KTumbers of Pidgeons Wing*;, Crows, 
Rooks and other Birds ; the Flood came down, fpread* 
ingFour or Five Acres of Land, rowling like the Bay 
of Bijcay ; and which is very ftrange, all this fell in 
the cornpafs of one EngUJh Mile. I was walking in my 
Garden, which is very fmall, perhaps about Thirty 
Yards Square, and before I could get out, it rook me 
to my Knees, and was through my Houfe before I 
could get in, which I can modtftly fpedk was in the 
fpace of a Minute, and went through all Lke a Sea, 
.Cat yiog all vv '.oden things like Boats on the Water, the 
greaccft part of the Town being undtr this Misforrui<? • 
the lurprize was io great, that we had fcarce time enough 
to fave our Children and Wives. The bignefs of the 
Hail ftones is almoft incredible ; And truly, were not I 
a Witnefs to the vaftnefi of thfe Numbers and Greatneft, 
i lliould not have believed, for Number it is impojfTible, 
to relate fome Hundred thoufand Cart-Loads , and I 
fee them four Days after; and if the Beds of Hail had 
not been broke by Peoples coming, and trampling of 
Horfes, it might have lain till Michaelmas. They 
have been meaTiired from One^ to Thirteen and Four- 
teen Inches certain ; fome People talk largely of if, 
Seventeen and Eighteen Inches, but the other is cer- 
tain Truth : The Figures of them are various, feme 
Oval, others round, others picked, fome flat, we were 
not fo curious to v/eigh them. The Damage about us 
and in our Town, is near 4000/ (lerL This is the 
moft ex3<St Account that I can ^ive of this moft pto- 
digious Storm, the like I lelieve was niDer read Hor 
heard of. 
VIL 
