Page:Account of a dreadful hurricane which happened in the island of Jamaica, in the month of October, 1780.pdf/3

 can come home to ourelves; and it is o  for thoe who uffer but little to complain,  thoe who uffer much are hardly credited in  enumeration of misfortunes. The firt of things is generally magnified; and the  which removes us from the eat of action, is  caue of dibelief; and fancy  often uppoed  be called in to the aid of truth. But what I am to write is a plain and a imple narrative,  by numbers, and (if o humbled an  may dare to peak) mot awfully felt by ; although I am concious that my los was  like a bubble in the ocean, when compared to  magnitude of the general mas. The hock the uffering parihes utained, very few tions of thoe parihes will ever recover. A general detruction in the extent of a given  of land, hath rarely happened; and the  of 1780, will be ever acknowledged as a tation that decends but once in a century, and  erves as a courge to correct the vanity, to  the pride, and to chatie the imprudence  arrogance of men.

The following decription, which immediately naturally aroe from the melancholy ubject,  the facts were freh, and the ruins, as it were,  my eyes, will not, I trut, be deemed foreign he general tendency of thee remarks; and I  be, I hope, excued, if I endeavour to awaken  recollection of calamities pat, particularly as in e calamities the poor negroes had likewie their ion of diappointment and affliction.

detructive hurricane began by gentle and unperceptible degrees, between twelve and  o'clock, on the morn of the 3d of October, and he year 1780. There fell, at firt, a trifling, which continued, without increae, untill ten