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the houses were left uncovered ; his smith's shop was 

 almost all washed away ; all his works and out-houses 

 blown down ; and, for 30 miles up a branch of this ri- 

 ver, which (on account of the abundance of that species 

 of cypress*, vulgarly called white cedar) is called 

 Cedar river, there was scarce a tree left standing. 

 The pines were blown down or broke ; and those 

 which had not entirely yielded to this violence were 

 so twisted, that they might be compared to ropes. 

 At Botereaux's cow-pen, the people were above six 

 vv-eeks consulting on a method of finding and bringing 

 home their cattle. Twelve miles up the river, live 

 some Germans, who, seeing the water rise with so 

 incredible a rapidity, were almost embarked, fearing 

 a universal flood : but the water not rising over their 

 land, they did not proceed on their intended journey 

 to the Chactaw nation. At Yoani, in this nation, I 

 am told, the effects were perceivable. In all this 

 tract of coast and country, the wind had ranged be- 

 tween the south-south-east and cast ; but farther 

 west, its fury was between the north-north-east and 

 east. A schooner, belonging to the government, 

 having a detachment of the sixteenth regiment on 

 board, was drove, by accident, to the westward, as 

 far as Cat- Island, where she lay at an anchor, under 

 the west point. The water rose so high, that, when 

 she parted her cables, she floated over the island, the 

 wind north by east, or thereabout. She was forced 

 upon the Free-mason's-Islands, and lay about six 

 weeks before she was got off: and if they had not 



* CiiprcsBus Thyoidcs. 



