When the rains are violent and of long continuance, they do great miſchief in the iſland, among the plantations; carrying away large tracts of land with coffee, plantain trees, ſugar canes, and ground proviſions; which are all hurried into the ſea. In the towns alſo, they often do much damage, cauſing the rivers to overflow their banks, or breaking out in freſh places, carry away houſes, or whatever elſe ſtands in the way of theſe dreadful torrents.
Thunder and lightening is ſeldom ſo ſevere in Dominica, or does ſo much damage there as in many other parts of the Weſt Indies; although there have been ſome inſtances of lightening ſtriking veſſels in the road, damaging houſes and killing people; but ſuch inſtances are very rare.
Nor are earthquakes, thoſe alarming phænomena of nature, ſo frequent, or ſo deſtructive in this, as in many other Weſt India iſlands;
