About Two a Clock in the Afternoon, the Wind encreased again, and we made no doubt it would prove as bad a Night as before; but that Gust held not above Half an Hour. All Night it blew excessive hard, and the next Day, which was Sabbath Day, about Eleven a Clock it abated, but still blew hard: about three it blew something moderately, compar'd with the former; and we got up a Jury Main-Mast, and rigg'd it as well as we could, and with a Main Sail lower'd almost to the Deck, stood at a great Rate afore it all Night and the next Day, and on _Tuesday_ Morning we saw Land, but could not tell where it was; but being not in a Condition to keep the Sea, we run in, and made Signals of Distress; some Pilots came off to us, by whom we were inform'd we had reached the Coast of _Norway_, and having neither Anchor nor Cable on board capable to ride the Ship, a _Norweigian_ Pilot came on board, and brought us into a Creek where we had smooth Water, and lay by till we got Help, Cables, and Anchors, by which means we are safe in Place. _Your Humble Servant_, J. Adams. _From on board the_ John and Mary, _riding in_ Yarmouth _Roads during the great Storm, but now in the River of_ Thames. _SIR_, Hearing of your good Design of preserving the Memory of the late Dreadful Storm for the Benefit of Posterity, I cannot let you want the Particulars as happen'd to us on board our Ship. We came over the Bar of _Tinmouth_ about the ---- having had terrible blowing Weather for almost a Week, insomuch that we were twice driven back almost the Length of _Newcastle_, with much Difficulty and Danger we got well over that, and made the _High-land_ about _Cromer_ on the North-side of _Norfolk_; here it blew so hard the _Wednesday_ Night before, that we could not keep the Sea, nor fetch the Roads of _Yarmouth_; but as the Coast of _Norfolk_ was a Weather-shore, we hall'd as close _Cromer_ as we durst lie, the Shore there being very flat; here we rode _Wednesday_ and _Thursday_, the 24th and 25th of _November_. We could not reckon our selves safe here, for as this is the most dangerous Place between _London_ and _Newcastle_, and has been particularly fatal to our Colliers, so we were very uneasy; I considered that when such Tempestuous Weather happen'd, as this seem'd to threaten, nothing is more frequent than for the Wind to shift Points; and if it should have blown half the Wind from the South East, as now blew from the South West, we must have gone a-shore there, and been all lost for being embayed; there we should have had no putting out to Sea, nor staying there.