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also. In the morning we looked around disconsolate 

 upon the havoc the hurricane had created; its rav- 

 ages were everywhere visible : great trees prostrate, 

 acres of forest torn in shreds, immense chasms washed 

 out of the hillsides, and large rocks torn from their 

 positions and hurled into the beds of the streams. 



