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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B110110.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A full and True RELATION Of a Dreadful and Terrible STORM, That Hapned at Forte St. George, IN The <HI>EAST-INDIES,</HI> on the 3d of <HI>November,</HI> 1684.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Communicated in a Letter to a Friend in <HI>London,</HI> from one belonging to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Factory.</HEAD>
<P>STrange and Wonderful are the ways of Divine and Governing Providence, in the management of the &s;everal Changes and Alte|rations on this <HI>Terre&s;trial Globe,</HI> the ways of the Almighty being un&s;earchable and pa&s;t finding out; yet he is often plea&s;ed to give us warning of his Di&s;plea&s;ure with us, for our Manifold Sins and Iniqui|ties committed again&s;t his Divine Maje&s;ty; That we may yet turn from them and Live: And as he hath placed the <HI>Rain-Bow</HI> in the <HI>Heavens</HI> as a Sign or Token to the Wretched Sons and Daughters of <HI>Adam,</HI> that he will no more De&s;troy the World by Water, &s;o he often gives us notice when his Wrath and Anger is kindled again&s;t us, by Signs in the <HI>Heavens, Air, Earth,</HI> and <HI>Waters;</HI> often letting loo&s;e the powers of the Air, to rove about the World in Storms and Tem|pe&s;ts: but we have &s;eldome heard of Hurricanes &s;o violent as this, whereof take the following Relation.</P>
<P>By Letters from <HI>Fort St. George</HI> of the 5th. of <HI>February</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, we have Advice that on the third of <HI>November,</HI> 1684. at the &s;aid <HI>Fort St. George</HI> in the <HI>Ea&s;t-Indies,</HI> a Factory of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> about Nine of the Clock at Night happened a Violent Storm, which la&s;ted until two of the Clock the next Morning, in which time it wrought wonderous Effects, to the great A&s;toni&s;hment of the Inhabitants, who were at a
<PB REF="2">greater Con&s;ternation at the extreem fiercene&s;s of the Tempe&s;t, than ever any Gari&s;on was, that was taken by Storm; &s;ome concluding that the Dreadful day of Doom was come; the great amazing &s;ound of it made the Wi&s;e&s;t Tremble, and the mo&s;t bold and Valiant, faint-Hearted: It untiled all the Hou&s;es in the Town, which made &s;uch a Ratling and terrible Noi&s;e, as if &s;ome thou&s;ands of <HI>Bombs</HI> had been thrown into the Town by an Enemy. It laid all their Gardens, (of which they have many Curious and plea&s;ent ones) as flat and level as the &s;mothe&s;t <HI>Bouling-Greens.</HI> Trees which were of a great and prodigious Growth, &s;ome of them perhaps as Ancient as the World, were Violently torn up by the Roots, and their Aged Trunks riven in Pieces: The noi&s;e of the cracking and breaking of their Boughs and Branches, &s;eemed almo&s;t to equal that of the Tempe&s;t; but that which the mo&s;t of all added to their Amazement was this, a &s;trong <HI>Iron-Bar</HI> which belonged to a Window, (a thing hardly Credible) was with the extreem force of the Wind, &s;napped into three Pieces. Which things had not the Relator of this from <HI>Forte St. George,</HI> been an Eye Witne&s;s the next Day, and of the Ruins cau&s;ed by this Tempe&s;t, or Hurricane, he could not have believed it; and adds further, that had it continued but for two or three Hours longer, it had certainly leveled both the Fort and Town, which are both &s;trong built, and well Fortified; but no doubt but this Storm hath been very Prejudi|cial to both, and done great Damage to the Inhabitants: I &s;hall con|clude with the Relators own Words: The Lord be Prai&s;ed for this Ce&s;&s;ation, and grant us deliverance from &s;uch Storms and Tempe&s;ts, to which had not the Providence of Almighty God in his great Wi&s;|dom put an end, and rebuked the Violence of its Rage, that Stately Fort and Town had certainly been laid even with the Ground, to the un&s;peakable Damage of the Right Honourable the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Compa|ny here.</P>
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<P>This may be Printed,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>1685.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED> R. L. S.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed by</HI> George Croom, <HI>at the Sign of the</HI> Blue-Ball <HI>in</HI> Thames-&s;treet, <HI>over again&s;t</HI> Baynard<HI>'s</HI>-Ca&s;tle. <HI>1685.</HI></P>
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