_So may_ Great Charles, _whom equal Glories move, Like the great_ Dardan Prince _successful prove: Like him, with Honour may he mount the Throne, And long enjoy a brighter destin'd Crown._ CHAPTER IV _Of the Extent of this Storm, and from what Parts it was suppos'd to come; with some Circumstances as to the Time of it_ As all our Histories are full of the Relations of Tempests and Storms which have happened in various Parts of the World, I hope it may not be improper that some of them have been thus observ'd with their remarkable Effects. But as I have all along insisted, that no Storm since the Universal Deluge was like this, either in its Violence or its Duration, so I must also confirm it as to the particular of its prodigious Extent. All the Storms and Tempests we have heard of in the World, have been Gusts or Squauls of Wind that have been carried on in their proper Channels, and have spent their Force in a shorter space. We feel nothing here of the Hurricanes of _Barbadoes_, the North-Wests of _New England_ and _Virginia_, the terrible Gusts of the _Levant_, or the frequent Tempests of the _North Cape_. When Sir _Francis Wheeler_'s Squadron perish'd at _Gibralter_, when the City of _Straelsond_ was almost ruin'd by a Storm, _England_ felt it not, nor was the Air here disturb'd with the Motion. Even at home we have had Storms of violent Wind in one part of _England_ which have not been felt in another. And if what I have been told has any truth in it, in St. _George_'s Channel there has frequently blown a Storm at Sea right up and down the Channel, which has been felt on neither Coast, tho it is not above 20 Leagues from the _English_ to the _Irish_ Shore. Sir _William Temple_ gives us the Particulars of two terrible Storms in _Holland_ while he was there; in one of which the great Cathedral Church at _Utrecht_ was utterly destroy'd: and after that there was a Storm so violent in _Holland_, that 46 Vessels were cast away at the _Texel_, and almost all the Men drowned: and yet we felt none of these Storms here. And for this very reason I have reserv'd an Abridgment of these former Cases to this place; which as they are recited by Sir _William Temple_, I shall put them down in his own Words, being not capable to mend them, and not vain enough to pretend to it.