It is not to the present purpose to relate its History and Causes; What we observe is, That the Moon was at that time _in Perigæo_, and just upon the change to _New_. Upon both which accounts its Action in raising the Atmosphere must be great; And hence indeed the _Tides_ which followed were also very great, and the _Mercury_ in the _Barometer_, at least, in most places, fell very low. This Influence was, without all doubt, assisted by some such other Causes of _Winds_, as we have mentioned; These we can't know, but may however take notice how much the manifest State of the Air contributed to this Calamity. After a greater quantity of Rains than ordinary had fallen in the Summer and Autumn, in those places where the Storm was felt, the Winter came on much warmer than usual; so that the Liquor in a Thermometer, of which the 84th Degree notes Frost, never fell below the 100th.[52] Hence we may very well believe, that the Atmosphere was at that time fill'd with Atoms of _Salts_ and _Sulphur_, out of the Vapours raised by the Heat from the moist Earth, which being variously combined and agitated, gave that deadly force to the Motion of the Air. A Proof of this we have not only from the frequent _Flashes_ of _Lightning_, observed a little before the Storm, but also from what the Country People took notice of the next day, that the Grass and Twiggs of the Trees, in Fields remote from the Sea, tasted very salt, so that the Cattle wou'd not feed on them. Our Histories mention another Storm, which if not equal to this last in Violence, is however thought the greatest that had then ever been known and memorable from the time at which it happened, _viz._ on the 3d of _September_, 1658. the day on which the Usurper _O. Cromwel_ died. No _Ephemerides_ that I know of relate the Condition of the Air that Year, but it is sufficient to remark, That whatever other Causes concurr'd, their force was accompanied with a _Full Moon_, just before the time of the _Atumnal Equinox_. Upon the same score it comes to pass, That in those Countries which are Subject to frequent _Inundations_, these Calamities are observed to happen at the times of the _Moon_'s greatest Influence, so that the Learned _Baccius_[53] has rightly enough laid the Cause of such Mischiefs upon immoderate _Tides of the Ocean_, being unhappily accompanied with the _attractive Force_ of some or other _Stars_. Dr. _Childrey_ in his _Britannia Baconica_[54] has from several Instances shewn the _Lunar_ Action in Damages of this kind.