Page:Account of a dreadful hurricane which happened in the island of Jamaica, in the month of October, 1780.pdf/4

 o'clock; about which time the wind aroe, and ea began to roar in a mot tremendous and  manner. As yet, we had not any of the ditres and danger which it was  afterwards our unhappy fortune to encounter:  although between two and three o'clock in the, we aw the ubordinat buildings begin  totter and fall around us; yet we did not think  neceary to provide, at that time, for our  or future afety. We now oberved, with emotion and concern, a poor pigeon  with fruitles truggle, to regain its net: it tered long in the air; and was o weakened at  that it was driven away by the wind, and in  a moment was carried entirely out of ight.

As great events are ometimes the of mall beginnings, and as imple occurences  often as triking as great concerns, I could not  dwelling with commieration upon what I had  and of anticipating, in ome meaure, the los  inconvenience, though not the real detruction,  what oon afterwards enued.

A poor dicouraged ewe, intimidated by the of the night, had found its way into the iant quarter of the houe, which, at the time  her retreat, mut have been wholly neglected;  to which it was afterwards, as our lat reort,  unfortunate detiny to repair. She lay with pati cold, and fearful trembling, amidt the joits, and cuffs that were inceently dealt around  She became a pathetic ufferer in the ucceeding ; and he mut have been a brute,  and more deerving of the apellation he bare,  could have pererved in forcing her from  eeming protection, or could have been  that lately, which, from her unwillingnes to