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 al deſpair. It is the natural province of man to er; it is an appendage of his condition: but it a ſomething more to learn to ſubmit, and  ſubmiſsion, without complaint, to bear. is natural to ſuppoſe that the ſtorm above, muſt have given riſe to many diſtreſſing pathetic ſcenes; muſt upon ſome occaſions have  up the foul, and upon others, have ined a tenderneſs and pity. Huſbands and wives, parents and children, were in many places erated by the terrors of the night and, as before obſerved, to meet no more: but  theſe dreadful ſcenes I ſhall not attempt to  as their remembrance will ſurvive the  of my pen, in the melancholy perpetuity  domestics afflictions; and which numberleſs ſaies, more or leſs, to the deſtruction of their es, and the diſcomfort of their lives, will long,  long, have cauſe to lament.

ſhall never forget the deſolate appearance my caſe made immediately after this cataſtrophe, nor many circumſtances of diſtreſs and commiſerations that alternatly ſhocked and ſoftened the mind. a poor infant was ſeen extracted from the, and its lifeleſs body confined to the care and of its deſponding parents; there ſat a  of negroes bewailing with heavineſs of heart,  all the ſilent eloquence of ſtreaming eyes; and -out hands, the total deſtruction of their e fortunes, in the wrecks of their houſes, the n of their effects, and the demolition of their ; while others ran confuſedly here and , without knowing upon what errand they  bent, or where to begin, or how to ſet about  reſtoration of their loſſes, or by what  to conſole their minds.

There were many who wiſhed to be employed our ſituations more comfortable, but