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 ual depair. It is the natural providence of man to ffer; it is an appendage of his condition: but it a omenthing more to learn to ubmit, and  patient ubmiion, without complaint, to bear.

It is natural to uppoe that the torm above mut have given rie to many ditreing  pathetic cenes; mut upon ome occaions have rrowed up the oul, and upon others, have  a tendernes and pity. Hubands and wives, parents and children, were in many places  by the terrors of the night and, as before oberved, to meet no more: but   thee dreadful cenes I hall not attempt to , as their remembrance will urvive the  of my pen, in the melancholy perpetuity  dometic afflictions; and which numberles , more or les, to the detruction of their , and the dicomfort of their lives, will long,  long, have caue to lament.

I hall never forget the deolate appearance my made immediately after this catatrophe, nor  many circumtances of ditres and  that alternately hocked and oftened the mind. a poor infant was een extracted from the, and its lifeles body confined to the care and of its deponding parents; there fat a  of negroes bewailing with heavines of heart,  all the ilent eloquence of treaming eyes; and  out hands, the total detruction of their  fortunes, in the wrecks of their houes, the n of their effects, and the demolition of their ounds; while others ran confuedly here and , without knowing upon what errand they were bent, or where to begin, or how to et about  retoration of their loes, or by what  to conole their minds.

There wre many who wihed to be employed rendering our ituations more comfortable, but