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 eemed impoible to happen, which  might trifle with, but which reaon would  believe; in hort, were I to mention what   aw, and what numbers could witnes; [uld be afraid to offer them to the erious regard  my readers, in the dread that I might be thought   their undertandings, and to advance as ion, what it would be very difficult, indeed, to dit as truth.

The ditees of the mierable inhabitants of, during the period, and for a long after the ceation; of the torm, mut have eeded the mot nervous, as they would have paed the mot melancholy powers of. They were uch as ought to have affected (if loes and private ufferings can ever affect  tony booms of the rapacious, and the icy  of the intereted), they were uch, I ay, as uld almot have melted the unfeeling, and have end the obdurate: but, alas! they could not, in many intances, divert the rigid purpoe, and hold the rigorous hard of the man of buines. who the day before were poeed, not only every dometic comfort, but of every reaonable ury of life, were now obliged to eek for helter  on a board; and were expoed, in icknes and iction, unheltered and unprovided, to the noiy ruions of the wind and the cold, and the  viitations of the hower.

Were I to enumerate private afflictions in this of general devatation and depair, I hould  the pathetic pen of that accomplihed ter who has given a charm to grief, and a  to uffering, in the tender pages of Emma rbet: and who could o well have expreed  correponding entiment, by flowing language, d glowing truth, thoe mighty orrows which the