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 Hurricanes, thoe dreadful courges of the Wet Indies, are eldom very evere in Dominica; and in comparion with the michief they generally do in other ilands, may more properly be termed only heavy guts of wind, epecially when compared with the detruction done by that in the Leward ilands the firt of September, 1772; the mot dreadful one that for ome time has been felt in the Wet Indies. In the hurricane eaon, the damage received in Dominica is principally occaioned by the very heavy rains, or by the ea, which ometimes in thoe eaons tumbles into the bays, epecially that of Roeau, in a very frightful manner; and making on the hore, overwhelms the veels that unfortunately happen to be there at anchor; and weeps away the houes, or whatever ele is in the way of its detructive force.

A particular circumtance of this kind, which happened there the lat day of ber,