The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and LandDefoe, Daniel
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The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and Land
Defoe, Daniel
Storms -- Early works to 1800
If a particular of this can be obtained, the Author Promises to put it
into _English_, and adding to them the other Accounts, which the rest of
the World can afford, together with some other Additions of the
_English_ Affairs, which could not be obtain'd in time here shall make
up the second part of this Work.
In the mean time the Reader may observe, _France_ felt the general
shock, the Peers, and Ricebank at _Dunkirk_, the Harbour at _Haver de
Grace_, the Towns of _Calais_ and _Bulloign_ give us strange Accounts.
All the Vessels in the Road before _Dunkirk_, being 23 or 27, I am not
certain, were dasht in pieces against the Peer Heads, not one excepted,
that side being a Lee shoar, the reason is plain, there was no going off
to Sea; and had it been so with us in the _Downs_ or _Yarmouth_ Roads,
it would have fared with us in the same manner, for had there been no
going off to Sea, 300 sail in _Yarmouth_ Roads had inevitably perisht.
At _Diepe_ the like mischief happened, and in proportion _Paris_ felt
the effects of it, as bad as _London_, and as a Gentleman who came from
thence since that time, affirmed it to me it was much worse.
All the N. East Countries felt it, in _Holland_ our accounts in general
are very dismal, but the Wind not being N.W. as at former Storms, the
Tyde did not drown them, nor beat so directly upon their Sea Wall.
It is not very irrational to Judge, that had the Storm beat more to the
North West, it must have driven the Sea upon them in such a manner, that
all their Dikes and Dams could not have sustained it, and what the
consequence of such an Inundation might ha' been they can best judge,
who remember the last terrible Irruption of the Sea there, which drowned
several thousand People, and Cattle without number.
But as our Foreign Accounts were not satisfactory enough to put into
this Collection, where we have promised to limit our selves by just
Vouchers, we purposely refer it all to a farther description as before.
Several of our Ships were driven over to those parts, and some lost
there, and the story of our great Ships which rid it out, at or near the
_Gunfleet_, should have come in here, if the Collector could have met
with any Person that was in any of the said Vessels, but as the accounts
he expected did not come in the time for the Impression, they were of
necessity left out.
The _Association_, a Second Rate, on Board whereof was Sir _Stafford
Fairborn_, was one of these, and was blown from the Mouth of the
_Thames_ to the Coast of _Norway_, a particular whereof as Printed in
the Annals of the Reign of Queen _Ann_'s is as follows.
_An Account of Sir_ Stafford Fairborne_'s Distress in the late Storm_.
_SIR_,
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