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from the south, exactly towards Lucia bay. The wind also 

 at Port Royal, in the south east corner of the island, was 

 blowing nearly to the same point, and from the log of the 

 Phrenix, some place between the east end of Jamaica and 

 Cuba, the wind was violent E. N. E., almost exactly towards 

 Lucia bay. The reader will observe that when the wind 

 changed at Lucia bay, and with the Phosnix, all the four 

 arrows, if drawn on the chart, would point to a spot near 

 where the Phoenix was wrecked, not many hours after- 

 wards, on Cuba. 



Great Barbadoes Hurricane, of October 11, 1780. 



149. At Carlisle bay, on the west side of Barbadoes, it 

 was remarkably calm on the evening of the 9th October, 

 but the sky was remarkably red and fiery. During the 

 night, much rain fell. On the morning of the 10th, much 

 rain and wind from the N. W. By 10, it increased very 

 much. By 4, P. M., the Albemarle frigate parted and went 

 to sea, as did all the other vessels, about twenty-five in 

 number. By 10, P. M., the wind forced itself a passage 

 through the house from the N. N. W., and the tempest in- 

 creased every minute. 



At St. Lucia All the barracks and other buildings in 

 the island were blown down. 



At St. Vincent Every building was blown down. 



At the town of St. Pierre, in Martinique Every house 

 was blown down, and more than one thousand people 

 perished. 



At Fort Royal Fourteen hundred houses, besides the 

 churches and public buildings, were blown down. 



At St. Eustatia On the morning of 10th, at 11 o'clock, 

 the sky on a sudden blackened all round ; it looked as dis- 

 mal as night, attended with the most violent rains, thunder, 



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