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 of the ſea; and hardly left behind, the traces their foundations. The negro houſes were, believe without a ſingle exception, univerſally  down and this reflection opens a large field for  philanthropiſt, whoſe feelings will pity, at  thoſe miſeries which he would have been happy  have had the power to relieve. Hardly a tree shrub, a vegetable, or a blade of graſs an inch long was to be ſeen ſtanding up and uninjured, the enſuing morning, nay, the very bark was whipt from the logwood hedges, as they lay upon the ground and the whole proſpect had the appearance of a comfort, over which the burning winds of Africa lately paſt

At Savanna-la Mar, there was not even a of a town (the parts only of two or three  having in partial ruin remained, as if to  the ſituation and extent of the calamity): the  materials of which it had been compoſed, had  carried away by the reſiſtleſs fury of the  which finally completed what the wind began. very great proportion of the poor inhahitantsinhabitants [sic] cruſhed to death, or drowned, and in one hour alone, it was computed that forty, out of one and forty ſouls, unhappily and prematurely periſhed. The ſea drove with progreſſive violence for more than a mile into the country; and carried terror as it left deſtruction, wherever it paſſed. Two large ſhips and a ſchooner were at anchor in the bay, but here driven a conſiderable diſtance from the ſhore, and totally wrecked among the mango trees upon land.

Were I to dwell upon the numberleſs ſingularities of accidents that this dreadful ſtorm occaſioned, both among the mountains and on the plains over which is paſſed; were I to mention its particularities and caprices, and the variety of contingencies