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which lasted six hours. The plantations suffered severely. 

 Two vessels belonging to Bordeaux, and all the Americans 

 at anchor in the road of St. Pierre, were driven out to sea. 

 The army schooner, the duke of York, on her return from 

 Trinidad to Barbadoes, during this hurricane, was in sight 

 of Granada in the evening, and to the eastward of that 

 island. About midnight she first began to experience hard 

 squalls from the N. W., which caused the master to take in 

 sail. The squalls increased until the vessel could carry no 

 sail at all, and she was expected every moment to founder. 

 Happily, at day light, those on board of her unexpectedly 

 found themselves drifted close to the island of Barbadoes. 



These are all the accounts we have of this hurricane, yet, 

 meagre as they are, the reader will perceive that during the 

 last two hours of the hurricane at Barbadoes, after the wind 

 changed round there S. E., it was N. at St. Lucia, and cer- 

 tainly between N. W. and S. W. at St. Vincent, and there- 

 fore at this time it was blowing inwards towards a central 

 space, not far, undoubtedly, from where the middle of the 

 storm then was. 



165. From Reid's Law of Storms, page 51, is extracted the 

 following account, which I have accompanied with a chart 



1. There was a violent gale at Nassau, New Providence 



