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Capt. Mountfort, from Demarara, gave information that 

 the hurricane had not been felt there. Capt. Wood declared 

 the like of Grenada. 



The gale cominenccd at St. Thomas on the 4th of Sep- 

 tember, in the afternoon, and lasted three days. During 

 this time it destroyed forty- two sail of vessels. Accounts 

 from the windward stated that the British packet from Fal- 

 mouth to Barbadoes had been lost. Guadaloupe, St. Bar- 

 tholomew's (where thirty sail were driven on shore), Tor- 

 tola, St. Kitts, Antigua (four sail driven on shore, a packet 

 foundered at anchor, and much damage done to estates in 

 the mountains), Eustatia, St. Martin's; and, in short, all 

 the Caribbee Islands experienced a like fate, with the loss 

 of many vessels, and much other property. There were 

 four wrecks at Anegado. 



At St. Kitts the hurricane began on the afternoon of the 

 3d of September. It blew at first from the north and norlh- 

 virest. On the 4th it shifted to the south-west, and changed 

 frequently to the south, blowing with equal fury in all these 

 directions. It was reckoned to be nearly as fatal in its ef- 

 fects, to shipping and to property on shore, as the ever- 

 memorable one in 1 772, and of much longer duration. The 

 quantity of rain which fell was great and sudden, so as al- 

 most to deluge the n)ountains. 



Cd, In the Bahama Islands. — The gale was experienced 

 at Turks Islands on the 4th of September. It prevailed in 

 the Bahamas with extreme violence. No severer one was 

 ever known. At Turks Islands all the vessels ran ashore 

 except two, which put to sea. Most of them were totallv 

 lost. Capt. Rhodes, who put to sea, returned thither on 

 the third day after, having sustained no other damage than 

 the loss ot one of his boats. The sea had broken into the 

 salt-ponds, injured the dykes and canals, and melted large 

 parcels of the salt in stacks. 



But capt. Waite informed us that the gale was severely felt 

 at Nassau, in New Providence, on the 5th and 6th of Sep- 

 tember. About thirty sail of small crait were driven on 

 shore, but not much damage done to square-rigged vessels. 

 Capt. Bakus, who was on his passaue froiii Ragged island 

 to New Providence, experienced the gale on the 7th. The 

 wind came first from north-east, then hauled to the west, 

 and afterwards blew north-north-west, and then west again. 

 3d, On the Jtluntic Ocean, to the Norlh-east and Nurth 

 of the Baiiamus. — Capt. Johnson encountered the gale on 

 the Cthof September, m lat. 31" 5', and long. 81". It fiist 

 blew from the north-east, and from that veered to west- 

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