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, 1780, was the mot remarkable that has occurred in this iland, in the memory of the oldet inhabitant, and did the mot michief. It did coniderable damage among the plantations, and in Roeau detroyed everal houes on the bay, and everal veels in the road.

The effects of thee hurricanes in the Wet Indies are truly atonihing; for the wind, with a fury hardly credible, blowing from different points at one and the ame intant, carries all before it; the rain is as it were taken out of the ea, and hurled on the land in clouds; which from not having time to exhale, is as alt as the briny element from which it was driven; and falls in drops as large as hail tones, affecting the hands and naked face, in the ame manner as a evere hail torm; the whole of the cene is truly alarming and beyond decription dreadful. The