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⟨calamities⟩ can come home to ourſelves; and it is ſo ⟨common⟩ for thoſe who ſuffer but little to complain, ⟨that⟩ thoſe who ſuffer much are hardly credited in ⟨the⟩ enumeration of misfortunes. The firſt ⟨impreſsion⟩ of things is generally magnified; and the ⟨difference⟩ which removes us from the ſeat of action, is ⟨the⟩ cauſe of diſbelief; and fancy (illegible text) often ſuppoſed ⟨to⟩ be called in to the aid of truth. But what I am ⟨about⟩ to write is a plain and a ſimple narrative, ⟨experienced⟩ by numbers, and (if ſo humbled an ⟨individual⟩ may dare to ſpeak) moſt awfully felt by ⟨myſelf⟩; although I am conſcious that my loſs was ⟨only⟩ like a bubble in the ocean, when compared to ⟨the⟩ magnitude of the general maſs. The ſhock ⟨which⟩ the ſuffering pariſhes ſuſtained, very few (illegible text)tions of thoſe pariſhes will ever recover. A ⟨more⟩ general deſtruction in the extent of a given ⟨proportion⟩ of land, hath rarely happened; and the ⟨hurricane⟩ of 1780, will be ever acknowledged as a (illegible text)tation that deſcends but once in a century, and ⟨that⟩ ſerves as a ſcourge to correct the vanity, to ⟨humble⟩ the pride, and to chaſtiſe the imprudence ⟨and⟩ arrogance of men.
The following deſcription, which immediately ⟨and⟩ naturally aroſe from the melancholy ſubject, ⟨when⟩ the facts were freſh, and the ruins, as it were, ⟨before⟩ my eyes, will not, I truſt, be deemed foreign (illegible text)he general tendency of theſe remarks; and I ⟨will⟩ be, I hope, excuſed, if I endeavour to awaken (illegible text) recollection of calamities paſt, particularly as in (illegible text)e calamities the poor negroes had likewiſe their (illegible text)ion of diſappointment and affliction.
⟨This⟩ deſtructive hurricane began by gentle and ⟨almoſt⟩ unperceptible degrees, between twelve and (illegible text) o'clock, on the morn of the 3d of October, and (illegible text)he year 1780. There fell, at firſt, a trifling (illegible text), which continued, without increaſe, untill ten
