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Natural disasters - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A Wonderful history of all the storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, &c. That have happen'd in England for above 500 years past, and the great dammages they have done, with a particular and large account of the dreadful-storm, that happen'd on the 26th and 27th of November, 1703. The loss sustained by sea and land, in houses, churches, people, cattle, corn, hay, trees, shipping and marriners, in England, Flanders, and Holland, the natural causes of winds, storms, earthquakes, blazing-stars, many Suns and Moons seen at a time, dreadful apparitions in the air, fiery dragons and drakes, circles round the Sun and Moon, rainbows seen in the day and night: an account of the ebbing and flowing of the sea, thunder, lightening, vapours, mists, dews, hail, rain, snow and forst, and lights that lead people out of their way in the night, with many other things terrible and amazing.
Date: 1704- Books
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A True and particular account of the great devastations made by the late terrible storm, which happened on the evening of the thirteenth, and morning of the fourteenth of January 1739.
Date: 1739]