Page:Account of a dreadful hurricane which happened in the island of Jamaica, in the month of October, 1780.pdf/9

 moments of upence, and when almot unk by, we prayed for more frequent lightning to  the walls, for more heavy thunder to out-roar  blaf, in the philoophic conolation that they ght purge the atmophere, and dipere the : but alas! they were but eldom een, or ly heard, as if afraid of combining the influence ight with the detruction of ound, and of rai upon the ground of terror, the upertructure

When the night was pat, and our minds hung between the danger we had ecaped, and  anticipation of what we might expect to enue;  the dawn appeared as if unwilling to dicloe  devatation that the night had caued; when the  beams peeped above the hills, and illuminated  cene around—jut God! what a contrat was exhibited between that morning and the day ! a day which eemed to mile upon Nature, to take delight in the propects of plenty that ed around, and which produced, wherever the  could gaze, the charms of cultivation, and the  of abundance; but which fallacious, alas! were to be at once annihilated by extenive and melancholy view of deolation  depair, in which the expectations of the moate, and the wihes of the anguine, were to be oon ingulphed. The horrors of the day were augmented by the melancholy exclamation of  voice, and the energetic expreion of every d: ome of which were uplifted in acts of ; ome wiped the tears that were flowing from  eye: while ome, considering from whence the tation came, were een to trike their breats, as   chide the groans which it was impoible to. An uncommon ilence reigned around: it the paue of conternation; it was a dumb