Miscellaneous Anecdotes Illustrative of the Manners And History of Europe Durin
Miscellaneous Anecdotes Illustrative of the Manners And History of Europe Durin
James Peller Malcolm
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22, 1686, is calculated to excite commiseration, though time has long since re- moved the survivors from temporal sufferings. " Groningen, Nov. 26. — On Friday the 22d instant, it blew the whole day a most violent storm from the S. E. ; towards iiight the wind changed to the West, then to the N. W. After- wards to the N. E. And back again to the N. W. The weather continued thus tempestuous all night, accompanied with thunder and lightning ; the chimneys and roofs of a great many houses were blo...wn down, and much more mischief was done, but it was not comparable to that which followed ; 204 followed; for the dykes not being able to resist the violence of the sea, agitated by these terrible storms, the whole country between this and Deif- ziel^ being about eighteen English miles, was the next morning overwhelmed with water, which in many places was eight foot higher than the very dykes, and many people and thousands of cattle were drownetl, the water breaking even through the walls of the town of Delfziel, to that height that the inhabitants w^ere forced to betake them- selves to their garrets and upper rooms for shelter.
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