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took the ground on the coast of Cuba ; and it was 5 o'clock 

 in the morning of the 4th of October. 



Journal of Princess Royal, in Port Royal Harbor. On 

 2d October, the wind was S. E. and E. S. E., A. M., and 

 the people employed in caulking the ship's bottom. P. M., 

 the wind was S. E. by E., and squally weather with rain; 

 people employed as before; violent squalls with heavy rain 

 in the night, wind from the south-eastward. On the 3d, 

 A. M., the wind E. S. E. to S. E., and gale increasing with 

 much rain ; people employed in securing the ship ; by the 

 violence of the wind in the night, the mizzen-topsail, fore- 

 top-gallantsail, and main-top-gallantsail, that were covering 

 tents in the yard, and had been condemned by survey on 

 the 30th of September, were entirely blown to pieces. P. M., 

 wind S. S. E., and excessive hard squalls, with thunder, 

 lightning and rain ; people employed as before. At mid- 

 night, more moderate and light rain. 



yPort Antonio. 

 Port Royal. 



All day till 11, P. M. 



1. Savannah la Mar ; destroyed, Oct. 3, 1780. 



These are all the data we have concerning this storm, yet 

 it will be seen, though we have no observations on the 

 western half of this storm, that the centre of it passed over 

 Lucia bay, from 6 to 6, P. M., and at that very time, and 

 for some time before and after, the wind on the other side 

 of the island at Savannah la Mar, was blowing a hurricane 



