ber, 1780, was the moſt remarkable that has occurred in this iſland, in the memory of the oldeſt inhabitant, and did the moſt miſchief. It did conſiderable damage among the plantations, and in Roſeau deſtroyed ſeveral houſes on the bay, and ſeveral veſſels in the road.
The effects of theſe hurricanes in the Weſt Indies are truly aſtoniſhing; for the wind, with a fury hardly credible, blowing from different points at one and the ſame inſtant, carries all before it; the rain is as it were taken out of the ſea, and hurled on the land in clouds; which from not having time to exhale, is as ſalt as the briny element from which it was driven; and falls in drops as large as hail ſtones, affecting the hands and naked face, in the ſame manner as a ſevere hail ſtorm; the whole of the ſcene is truly alarming and beyond deſcription dreadful.
