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 of the ea; and hardly left behind, the traces of their foundations. The negro houes were, and I believe without a ingle exception, univerally blown down: and this reflection opens a large field for the philanthropit, whoe feelings will pity, at leat, thoe mieries which he would have been happy to have had the power to relieve. Hardly a tree, a hrub, a vegetable, or a blade of grass an inch long, was to be een tanding up and uninjured, the enuing morning: nay, the very bark was whipt from the logwood-hedges, as they lay upon the ground; and the whole propect had the appearance of a deert, over which the burning winds of Africa had lately pat.

At Savanna-la Mar, there was not even a vetige of a town (the parts only of two or three houes having in partial ruin remained, as if to indicate the ituation and extent of the calamity): the very materials of which it had been compoed, had been carried away by the reitles fury of the waves, which finally completed what the wind began. A very great proportion of the poor inhabitants were cruhed to death, or drowned, and in one houe alone, it was computed that forty, out of one and forty ouls, unhappily and prematurely perihed. The ea drove with progreive violence for more than a mile into the country; and carried terror, as it left detruction, wherever it paed. Two large hips and a chooner were at anchor in the bay, but berewere [sic] driven a coniderable ditance from the hore, and totally wrecked among the mango-trees upon land.

Were I to dwell upon the numberles singularities of accidents that this dreadfnldreadful [sic] torm occaioned, both among the mountains and on the plains over which is paed; were I to mention its particularities and caprices, and the variety of contingencies