22 Account of a Hurricane 



were washed or blown down, and much property lost. 

 Numerous houses were unrooted, and trees overturned. 



On Sullivan's Island fifteen or twenty houses were un- 

 dermined by the water, and carried away. Fort Johnson, 

 which had been long in a tottering condition, was destroyed, 

 so as not to admit the mounting a single cannon. The 

 breast-work and pallisadoes of Fort Pinckney were washed 

 away. From Fort Moultrie, near which the sea made a 

 clear breach to the cove, every spot was covered with 

 water. 



At Jacksonburgh the crops of corn and cotton were much 

 injured. The bridges were carried away between Charleston 

 and George Town, and so many trees blown across the 

 roads as to obstruct the stages for several days. 



At May River all the crops, cotton, and negro houses, 

 machines, &c. were completely swept off. The tide rose 

 nine feet higher than the highest spring rise. On Hutchin- 

 son's Island many negroes, and some white people, were 

 drowned. The like happened at Dawfousky and Brough- 

 ton's Islands. 



At Coosahatchie trees were thrown across the roads, 

 and bridges carried away, so as to prevent intercourse 

 through the country ; that village was entirely surrounded 

 by sea water. In Prince William's parish, Beaufort di- 

 strict, the storm was experienced in an awful manner. 

 The sea formed a junction through the streams of Pocota- 

 ligo. Stony Creek, and Huspa rivers, in such a manner as 

 to turn Scotch Neck into an island. Through the fields, 

 at Sheldon to Motley, the water covered the plantations 

 four feet deep on the high road and causeway leading to the 

 meeting-house, rendering the roads impassable. Great de- 

 struction was made upon the crops of rice and cotton, and 

 many animals of various kinds were drowned. Nothing 

 but the high ground was visible on the roads of the Fish- 

 pond and Horse-shoe savannas. 



The gale began at George Town (South Carolina), be- 

 tween three and four A.M. on the 8th of September. The 

 wind was at north-east, and blew with increasing violence 

 until midnight. It then changed to south-south-east, and 

 abated little of its fury before the evening of the 9th. The 

 rain descended in most profuse quantity the greater part of 

 the time. 



The gale extended to the upper part of the country as far 

 as the mountains, to a distance of two hundred and fifty 

 miles. It blew from the north-east, and was so violent at 

 one hundred miles from the sea board, as to blow down 



forest 



