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
I find in the Advertisments a Desire to have an Account of what
happen'd remarkable in the late terrible Storm in the Country; the
Stories every where are very many, and several of them such as will
scarce gain Credit; one of them I send here an Account of being an
Eye Witness, and living upon the place: The Storm here began on the
26th of _Novem._ 1703. about 12-a-clock, but the severest Blasts
were between 5 and six in the Morning, and between Eight and Nine
the 27th I went up to the Church, where I found all the middle Isle
clearly stript of the Lead from one End to the other, and a great
many of the Sheets lying on the East End upon the Church, roll'd up
like a piece of Cloth: I found on the Ground six Sheets of Lead, at
least 50 Hundred weight, all joyn'd together, not the least parted,
but as they lay upon the Isle, which six Sheets of Lead were so
carried in the Air by the Wind fifty Yards and a Foot, measured by a
Workman exactly as cou'd be, from the place of the Isle where they
lay, to the place they fell; and they might have been carried a
great way further, had they not happen'd in their way upon a Tree,
struck off an Arm of it near 17 Yards high; the End of one Sheet was
twisted round the Body of the Tree, and the rest all joyn'd together
lay at length, having broke down the Pales first where the Tree
stood, and lay upon the Pales on the Ground, with one End of them,
as I said before, round the Body of the Tree.
At the same time at _Marson_, in the County of _Warwick_, about 4
Miles from this place, a great Rick of Wheat was blown off from its
Staddles, and set down without one Sheaf remov'd, or disturb'd, or
without standing away 20 Yards from the place.
If you have a mind to be farther satisfied in this Matter, let me
hear from you, and I will endeavour it: But I am in great hast at
this time, which forces me to be confus'd.
_I am your Friend_,
E. Kingsburgh.
_The following Account we have from_ Fareham _and_ Christ Church _in_
Hampshire, _which are also well attested_.
_SIR_,
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