198 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



At 1, P. M., wind E. N. E., strong gales and hard squalls. 

 At 3, A. M., of 12th, just weathered the Island of Caraval, 

 the N. E. end of Martinico. At 5, the wind E. At 7, wind 

 E. by N., hove to under a mizzen topsail. At noon, wind 

 E. S. E., continuing a heavy gale and violent squalls. N. 

 end of Martinico, distance fifteen leagues. 



To these particulars extracted from Col. Reid, I am ena- 

 bled to add the following from the Pennsylvania Gazette of 

 1780. 



Pennsylvania Gazette of December 13, 1780. At Bridge- 

 town, Barbadoes, (which is on the south west side) the 

 wind began to blow very fresh soon after daybreak of Tues- 

 day the 10th of October, and increased till 4 o'clock next 

 morning. The wind during the greater part of the hurri- 

 cane, blew from the N. E. quarter, and never shifted to the 

 southward further than S. E. 



From the same paper of December 6. On the 10th, at 

 St. Pierre, on the west side of Martinique, a sudden gale 

 sprung up from N. E., and though the gale increased and 

 continued without intermission, the shipping kept their sta- 

 tions as the wind blew off the land till the 1 1th. On the 

 night of the llth, the wind shifted to the southward, and 

 after continuing there two or three hours, shifted to the 

 S. W., and blew right on shore. Between 2 and 3 o'clock 

 of the morning of the 12th, the sea was thrown into the 

 most violent agitation, and raged with in-credible fury, and 

 destroyed many houses and stores on the bay. 



At St. Christophers, the wind abated on Saturday, the 

 14th, but about 8 o'clock, it changed to the southward, and 

 drove the Minerva on shore. At Bassatere, St. Christophers, 

 it began a gale about midnight of Wednesday the llth, 

 and increased all next day. 



Same paper of December 20. At St. Vincents, the wind 

 came round to N. W., on Tuesday night the 10th, and blew 

 very fresh all night from that quarter. At sunrise, it came 



