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AN ACCOUNT
OF A
Dreadful Hurricane, &c.
Hurricane in Jamaica, October, 1780.
THE moſt formidable enemy the ſugar ⟨cane⟩ has to encounter, and the principal dread ⟨in⟩ thoſe latitudes in which it grows, muſt, from ⟨its⟩ deſtructive pre eminence, be deemed the ⟨hurricane⟩. The fell Tornado, and the burning plains of ⟨Africa⟩ have only ſands and deſerts to witneſs their ⟨malignant⟩ fury; but the wind which, from its effects, ⟨I⟩ am about to deſcribe, ſweeps through the ⟨regions⟩ of cultivation and expence, and reduces, and ⟨almost⟩ with a ſingle blaſt, the independent to diſtreſs, ⟨the⟩ affluent to want, and the feeling to deſpair. It ⟨is⟩ unpleaſant to ſpeak of public calamities, if ⟨those⟩
