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volcano fell at Spanish Town^* in Jamaica. 

 The decks of the Rhadamanthus steamer were 

 swept several times to clear them away in the 

 harbour at Port Royal^ where they fell in 

 profusion; a noise^ like that of artillery^ was 

 heard at Portobello, Old Providence^ Jacmel 

 in St. Domingo, and, I am informed, that the 

 explosion was heard not only here, but even 

 in the very centre of Columbia. At Porto- 

 bello and Old Providence, boats were sent out 

 to discover a ship supposed to be firing guns 

 in distress. 



At Jamaica the trade-wind is directly in the 

 teeth of the arrival of ashes from America, 

 therefore an upper current, which is generally 

 supposed to exist, must have blown them to 



* The Marquis of Sligo informed me that some of this 

 dust had been observed in the garden of the Government- 

 house, for the arrival of which, at the time, he was unabk? 

 to account. 



