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The ravages [of the storm] were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia. Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, whole districts levelled by waterspouts, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its (468), left by this devastating tempest.