The shorter accounts which have been sent up from almost all parts of England, especially to the south of the Trent; though we do not transmit them at large as the above said letters are, shall be faithfully abridged for the readier comprising them within the due compass of our volume.
From Kent, we have many strange accounts of the violence of the storm, besides what relate to the sea affairs.
At Whitstable, a small village on the mouth of the East Swale of the river Medway, we are informed a boat belonging to a boy was taken up by the violence of the wind, clear off from the water, and being bourn up in the air, blew turning continually over and over in its progressive motion, till it lodged against a rising ground, above 50 rod from the water; in the passage, it struck a man who was i
