Page:Account of a dreadful hurricane which happened in the island of Jamaica, in the month of October, 1780.pdf/7

 in upon us o oon as their houes were, and whoe terrors eemed to have deprived of ene and motion, not only very  augmented the confuion of the time, but very  added, by their whipers and ditres,  the cene of general upene, and the  of hope and alarm. Some lamented by, the los of their wives and children, of their fears had deprived them; while others  the downfall of their houes, of which  had o lately been the unfortunate pectators.

will be difficult to conceive a ituation more than what my houe afforded from four  in the afternoon until ix o'clock the  morning. Driven, as we were, from room to, while the roofs, the floors, and he walls, were over head, or falling around us; the wind  with a noie and violence that cannot even  be reflected upon without alarm; the rain aring down in torrents; and the night which  to fall, as it were in a moment,  dark, and the gloom of which we had not a  ray to enliven, and the length of which we not either pirits or reolution, by converation,  cheer! The negro huts, as; before oberved, were this time detroyed; and the mierable ufferers  into the houe, and began uch complaints  lamentations as added very coniderably to the, and much increaed the almot before  ditrees of the cene. One poor man in particular (if real philanthrophy would didain to make a dicrimination of colour, s, in a very particular and enible manner, ened to pity. Her child and that a favourite, was arly buried in the ruins of her houe that fell  her: he natched it, with all the  impatience of maternal fondnes, from the