Extract of a letter, regarding details of a hurricane in South Carolina from unknown author to unknown recipient

Reference number: CLP/4i/59

Date: 28 January 1714

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The author states that the walls around Charlestowne [Charleston] were destroyed and several people drowned during a hurricane that happened on 6 September 1713.

Subject: Meteorology

Read to the Royal Society on 28 January 1714

Reference number: CLP/4i/59
Earliest possible date: 28 January 1714
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Extract of a letter, regarding details of a hurricane in South Carolina from unknown author to unknown recipient, 28 January 1714, CLP/4i/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_4i_59/extract-of-a-letter-regarding-details-of-a-hurricane-in-south-carolina-from-unknown-author-to-unknown-recipient, accessed on 13 February 2026

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Classified papers of the Royal Society
1660-1741 Reference number: CLP
Classified papers: volume 4i concerning 'Physiology, Meteorology, Pneumaticks'
1661-1728 Reference number: CLP/4i

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