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 of the inhabitants are obliged to purchaſe  at the exhorbitant price of a bit for ſix ears,  to keep their ſlaves from periſhing until  proviſions can be procured.

It is yet impoſſible to ſay what number of lives been loſt in this dreadful calamity; but they  be numerous; in one plantain boat only,  perſons periſhed; as did the crew of the Ruby's, at Port Reval, in endeavouring to aſſiſt a  in diſtreſs ſoon after the ſtorm came on.

Edinburgh Advertiſer, Nov. 6, 1781.

Ornado. The following intereſting account of this awful phænomenon, which took place at, in the pariſh of Ednam, Berwickſhire, the 3d curt. we copy from the Kelſo Mail.

"The weather through the day had been calm, ſoft ſhowers. At ſeven o'clock in the evening there was obſerved by many people, a little to  ſouth-weſt of Mr. Tod's houſe at Whitelaw,  denſe light coloured cloud of a very uncommon . It reſembled an inverted cone,  from the ground to a conſiderable height in the . Its motion towards the houſe was ſlow  majeſtic. a perſon of no great agility on ſeeing  approach could eaſily have eſcaped from it. It  at length to whirl round with great rapidity,  with a loud, rattling noiſe. The effect  amazing power was firſt exhibited upon a large  of ſtraw in the barn-yard, which it raiſed in   maſs to a conſiderable height in the air. A  of timber, lying flat on the ground, was  from its place ſeveral feet; and it will be thought oft to exceed credibility when it is mentioned,  this beam was thirty-three feet long! Small  were heaped together in mounds as if by ood. The farm-offices were materially injured;