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this disastrous affair would fill a 
volume. The canes, plantation 
grounds, wharfs, mills, and great 
houses, with works, on the north 
side, were nearly all destroyed; 
and the south side had nearly 
shared the same fate. The Raikes 
was one of the ships which fer- 
tunately rode out the gale with- 
out any danger whatever, except 
the loss of the long boat, pinnace, 
and jolly boat. 
Further Accounts.—Of the ‘20 
parishes in the island of Jamaica, 
eleven, or more of them, have 
suffered irreparable injuries, in 
houses, plantations, and various 
other kinds of property. But the 
most to be regretted, is the se- 
vere loss of lives, particularly 
amongst the negroes. The whole 
island was a complete deluge. 
Rivers which have been in exist- 
ence for ages past, have been 
driven from their natural chan- 
nels, sweeping away numerous 
buildings in their passage, toge- 
ther with their unfortunate inha- 
bitants. Up to the last advices 
coming away from Kingston, the 
whole extent of property and 
lives lost in the tremendous hur- 
ricane of the 17th, had not been 
ascertained ; but enough had ap- 
peared, -to prove that a more dis- 
astrous storm had never been ex- 
perienced. 
At Port Antonio the gale was 
dreadful. The shipping suffered 
severely; Abraham Newland went 
on shore, and had her main keel 
knocked off; the ship Fox was 
bilged; the ship Foyle totallylost; 
the captain and two others drown- 
ed; the Salo, Dick, from Wil- 
mington, wrecked, and: all lost 
except one; the Two Friends, 
and captain Redman’s sloop, both 
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went on shore; a Spanish brig 
lost, and all on board perished. ; 
At Morant Bay, two waves 
were totally destroyed. Thesloop 
Dart was driven on shore; the 
sloop Enterprise was totally lost 
at Annatte Bay, and her mate 
drowned ; the ships Jannet, Earl 
of Lonsdale, and the William, all 
suffered more or less. 
From Port Maria.—Ship Fife, 
on shore, expected to be lost; 
Lady Banks lost her rudder, and 
much injured; William and Nancy 
sloop and Aurora got on the 
beach, and were totally lost. Se- 
veral buildings were blown down, 
cattle destroyed, and the estates 
much injured. Eliza Ann, capt. 
Smith, on shore at Oracabessa ; 
the ship Hercules, bound to Ame- 
rica, on shore near Frankfort- 
wharf, and it is feared for the 
lives of the crew; a brig and a 
schooner on shore at Dry Har- 
bour. 
In the parish of St. David's, the 
damage by the storm was im- 
mense. ‘The plantations and cof 
fee were almost entirely destroy- 
ed. Numerous negroes’ houses 
were swept away down precipices 
2 and 300 feet deep, when the 
ground under the houses gave 
way, and the friends and children 
of the negroes being involved in 
certain ruin, the cries of the un- 
fortunate presented a scene be- 
yond the power of manto describe; 
not only was the coffee destroyed 
by therivers altering their course, 
but the corn was beaten down, and 
every tract on the plantation de- 
molished. 
The parish of St. Thomas’s in 
the East, all the hilly estates, 
planted with sugar canes, are toe 
tally destroyed, not onlyasregards 
