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The Greatest Wind Ever Blown Upon That Coast

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As we struggled on, nearer and nearer to the sea from which this mighty wind was blowing dead on shore, its force became more and more terrific. The people came out to their doors, all a slant and with streaming hair, making a wonder of the mail that had come through such a night. When some white-headed billows thundered on and dashed themselves to pieces before they reached the land, every fragment of the late hole seemed possessed by the full might of its wrath. Shaving hills were changed to valleys. Undulating valleys were lifted up to hills. Masses of water shivered and shook the beach with a booming sound. For hours I lay there listening to the

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