 | 1762 - 544 pages
...fields, all fwept away together, and iwallowed up in one dreadful inundation. Houfes, barns, ricks of corn and hay, were all involved in the common ruin....rich in the morning were beggars before noon, and feveral pcriOied in endeavouring to fave their effefts. Briltol and Auft fuffered terribly, and all... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1762 - 686 pages
...iwè'pt away together, and fwallowed Up in one dreadful inundation. Houfes, barn«, ricks of corn »iid hay, were all involved in the common ruin. Many who were rich in the morning were beggars before D noon, and feveral periihed in en deavouring to lave their effefts. BriJM and Aufl fiiffered terribly,... | |
 | John Parkin - Epidemics - 1880 - 540 pages
...the fields, all swept away together and swallowed up in one dreadful inundation. Houses, barns, ricks of corn, and hay were all involved in the common ruin....country from Bristol to Gloucester, on both sides the Severn, was overflowed to the distance of six miles, and most of the bridges over it and the adjacent... | |
 | Gloucestershire (England) - 1881 - 556 pages
...fields, all swept away together, and swallowed up in one dreadful inundation. Houses, barns, ricks of corn and hay, were all involved in the common ruin....the adjacent buildings were destroyed or defaced. At Chepstowt Goldclift, Matherne, CaUcott-Moor, Redelift, Newport, Cardiff's, Cowbridge, Swansey, Langherne,... | |
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... banks were laid under water, and many hundreds of men, women, and children perished in the floods. From the hills might be seen herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, with husbandmen labouring in the fields, all swept away together, and swallowed up... 