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at Bridgetown were fet at angles to each other, though they 

 were flickered from the wind, and nothing had fallen on them 

 that could produce fuch an effect ; calks had changed their po- 

 fition in cellars below ground ; maffes of rock were removed, 

 which the mere force of air and water did not feem capable of 

 effecting ; and there were chafms in the earth, which feemed 

 to indicate fome internal agitation. The inhabitants, both of 

 Barbadoes and St Lucia, felt the earthquake plainly ; and at 

 St Lucia the earthquake happened fome hours after the greateft 

 feverity of the gale. 



THIS hurricane chiefly affected Barbadoes, (which is in lati- 

 tude 13) the middle Caribbee iflands, Martinique, St Lucia, 

 and St Vincent's. It was felt, but very (lightly, at Antigua, St 

 Chriftopher's, the Virgin iflands, and at Grenada. At Tobago, 

 they had rough weather at the time, which did no material 

 damage. It is remarkable, that the more northern Weft India 

 iflands, from latitude 17 to the tropic, are feldom exempt 

 from hurricanes, for more than feven or eight years together* 

 At Barbadoes, it has been already obferved, there had been no- 

 thing of this kind for above a century. 



THE extent of this hurricane, from north to fouth, was pretty 

 well afcertaihed by the accounts from the different iflands al- 

 ready mentioned. But there were no means of afcertaining, 

 with equal accuracy, how far it extended from eaft to weft. A 

 {hip that arrived at Barbadoes fix days after, had a gale of wind 

 about the time of the hurricane, which was not particularly 

 violent, and was remarkable only for this, that the wind blew 

 all round the compafs ; a circumftance which diftinguiflies the 

 hurricane from all other gales within the tropics ; the courfe 

 of nature being fo far inverted, that the direction of the trade- 

 winds, at other times conftant, is not then obferved. At Bar- 

 badoes, indeed, the greater part of the hurricane was from the 

 N. E. ; but an hour or two after midnight, it was, for a little 



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