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 give you many thanks for your account from _London_: We were no
less terrified in _Oxon_ with the Violence of the Storm, tho' we
suffer'd in comparison but little Damage. The most considerable was,
a Child kill'd in St. _Giles_'s by the fall of an House; two
Pinnacles taken off from the Top of _Magdalen_ Tower, one from
_Merton_; about 12 Trees blown down in _Christ_ Church long walk,
some of the Battlements from the Body of the Cathedral, and two or
three Ranges of Rails on the Top of the great Quadrangle: Part of
the great Elm in University Garden was blown off, and a Branch of
the Oak in _Magdalen_ walks; the rest of the Colleges scaped
tolerably well, and the Schools and Theatre intirely. A very
remarkable passage happened at Queen's College, several Sheets of
Lead judged near 6000 _l._ weight, were taken off from the Top of
Sir _J. Williamson_'s Buildings, and blown against the West-end of
St. Peter's Church with such Violence, that they broke an Iron-bar
in the Window, making such a prodigious Noise with the fall, that
some who heard it, thought the Tower had been falling. The rest of
our Losses consisted for the most part in Pinnacles, Chimneys,
Trees, Slates, Tiles, Windows, _&c._ amounting in all, according to
Computation, to not above 1000 _l._
_Ox. Dec._ 7. 1703.
_From_ Kingstone-upon-Thames, _the following Letter is very particular,
and the truth of it may be depended upon_.
_SIR_,
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