Page:Account of a dreadful hurricane which happened in the island of Jamaica, in the month of October, 1780.pdf/5

, it was natural to think that he at that time. I mut confes, that I tried to dipoes, but I tried in vain; and I have ince reflected, her preervation was as dear to her as mine  to me: and I feel a real comfort in repeating  exquiitely humane and tender lines of Ovid,  are o feelingly decriptive of the fate of this  ueful and patient animal.

Every thing claims a kindred in misfortune; it like death; but death, alas! to ome comes late; and to others it comes too early. In a time, perhaps, it was the fate of the poor  creature above dicribed, to feel its troke. have caued, unknowingly, its execution, might have feated upon its fleh. The very idea my blood, and brings to my mind the  of the dreadful ituation of Pierre aud.

An act of dire neceity may be certainly excued; to detroy (for the gratification of an appetite  we have in common with brutes) that which  been ued to live in a dometic and in a  tate around us, would argue an inenibility,  which every feeling mind mut naturally : and I hould hope, that there are but few  who could eat of that kid, which they had  lick the butcher's hand at the very moment at the knife was about to deprive its innocence of ; and when it upplicated, with an almot cry, its preervation of life, and with a andihment o particularly expreive of and pity.

From the morning until four o'clock in the, the wind continued to blow with violence from the north and eat: but from  time, having collected all its powers of , it ruhed with irreitable violence from the