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eannlster shot were carried from one hundred to two hun- 

 dred Joel, and muskets were seattered all over the island. 



Such was the beating of the ocean against the shores, that 

 at SavanaHii the rain which fell was of a saline taste. An 

 experiment made bv evaporating some of it, proved it to 

 be highly nnprennalcd with sea salt ; this was probably de- 

 rive i from vhe spray of the sea. The water in the river was 

 saltish at Savannah, and for fifteen miles above. Sand was 

 bl .wn into 'he upper stories of houses thirty feet higher 

 than the surface of the earth. 



At >t. Simon's Isiand great damage was done by inun- 

 dating the cr;'DS and drownmg the negroes. The like hap- 

 pened on St. Catharine's, and on the other islands along 

 the c(>.i;'f. At Sunbury the bluff was reduced to a perfect 

 beach, and almost every chinniey was levelled with the 

 ground 



Mr. fsiiac Eriogs, who was in the interior of Georgia, 

 about tvv'enty-Lhree miles from the high shoals of Apalactiy, 

 on his wa\' to Hawkins's settlement, on Tallapoosa river, 

 arrived at the house of an Indian trader there on the 8th of 

 September : here he was detained two days by severe stormy 

 weather. In his letter to Mr. Jefferson he remarks, " that 

 sometimes his ear could scarce distinguish an interval be- 

 tween ihe found of one falling tree and that of another." 

 The wind was north-east. 



The gale was distinctly felt in the upper country as far 

 as it is settled, which is to the distance of three hundred 

 miles from the ocean. It was felt there as a strong wind 

 which blew down the corn, but was not hard enough to 

 prostrate trees. There it blew from the north-east, and 

 began on the afternoon of Saturday the Sth. The rain did 

 not begin uniil in the evening. 



(C). /■' South Carolina. — At Charleston the gale was 

 more funou'i and long continued than was ever known 

 since the fuirncane of 1 752. It prevailed there on the /ih, 

 8th, and 9th of September, and exceeded, in violence and 

 duration, the great storm of 1783. It began at Charleston 

 on the 7lh, about eleven P. M., and continued until Sunday 

 morning, the Qth, at one. The wind was at first north-east. 

 In the course of the morning of the Sth it shifted to the 

 ea^l, and in the afternoon to south east. It lasted for 

 nearly thirtv-six hours. But three or four of 'he vessels in 

 the harbour escaped without injury. Many were nuieh 

 damaged, and several wholly lost. The whole of the 

 wharves, from Gadsden's, on Cooper River, to the extent 

 of South Bay, received considerable damage. Many stores 

 B 3 were 



