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November, 1800. E quitted Rotterdam about five in the afternoon of the 9th of November, in the treckschuyt, or passage-boat, for Delft, on our way to the Hague. The weather was unpleasant and tempestuous, but nothing indicated the furious hurricane which overtook us at the distance of a mile from Rotterdam. It resembled in violence rather the tornadoes which desolate the tropics, than an European tempest. The rage of the wind, and the