A HURRICANE. 4° 
violent gusts of wind, seemed the announcement 
of some terrible convulsion. Torn by the blast, 
the noblest trees of the forest bowed their lofty 
heads, the cracking of their branches and the 
heaving of their massive stems preceding the 
crash of their entire destruction. Others of 
enormous size, rent up at once entirely by the 
roots, fell in one vast heap of ruin to fhe earth. 
Some, with colossal branches, like giant arms, 
outspread for the conflict, offered a momentary 
resistance, to be suddenly snapped across the 
centre; while the victorious tempest, carrying in 
its current a mass of twigs and lighter foliage, 
whirled around a cloud of dust ‘which obscured 
the air. 
The groaning of the desolated forests mingled 
with the storm, as hurrying, with shrieking war- 
ery or sullen howl, along its desolating track, its 
tumult could have been equalled only by the 
roar of the Niagara cataract. Speedily, as it 
arose, the fury of the hurricane subsided, though 
for hours the air was thickened by the abun- 
dance of lighter foliage, still swept around by 
the gale. An odour, as of sulphur, then filled the 
atmosphere, and the greenish lurid sky looked 
down upon the huge heap of vegetaticn, which, 
in shapeless masses, marked the course of the 
hurricane. So rapidly had it advanced, that be- 
fore Audubon could take measures for his safety, 
