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

A compiler gathers contemporary reports and notices of a violent tempest, presenting numerous eyewitness and official accounts of shipwrecks, coastal and inland damage, ruined buildings, and human losses. The volume begins with a detailed preface on the historian's duty to verify testimony and avoid embellishment, then arranges incidents by locality and circumstance to convey the storm's varied effects. Individual narratives alternate with official summaries and practical observations about material destruction, while the editor intermittently draws moral and religious inferences, urging readers to reflect on human vulnerability and the implications of such sudden natural disasters.