Page:Account of a dreadful hurricane which happened in the island of Jamaica, in the month of October, 1780.pdf/2



HE mot formidable enemy the ugar has to encounter, and the principal dread  thoe latitudes in which it grows, mut, from  detructive pre eminence, be deemed the. The fell Tornado, and the burning plains of have only ands and deerts to witnes their  fury; but the wind which, from its effects,  am about to decribe, weeps through the  of cultivation and expence, and reduces, and  with a ingle blat, the independent to ditres,  affluent to want, and the feeling to depair. It unpleaant to peak of public calamities, if