The Second Benefit I found by Experience, on the 
Shore, was in this Year, 1667. That in the Store- 
hou(e where I kept the Regiment's Amunition and 
Cloathes, I had a good Quantity of my Lord Willough- 
iys Sugars, and my own ; and I did, on the Confidence 
1 had ot the Hurricane's coming, with my Negroes, roll 
all my Sugars on Mafts of Ships, with high Clogs un- 
der my Mafts, and made Gutters for the Water to run 
away underneath, I being affured of the great Quanti- 
ties of Rain that falls in this Storm ; and on my Plan- 
chant over the Sugars I did lay all the Bundles of Soldiers 
Cloathes, and theBarrelsof Powder on that and then I 
laid all the Match on the Powder, and four or five Sails 
over the Match ; the Clews of the Sails I fpik'd all down 
to the Timbers : fo that when the Hurricane had carried 
away the Roof of the Houfe; yet my Sugars and Goods 
remained all fafe, that I loft but one Hoglhead of Sugar, 
and thatftood a-head open, by the Negled of my Ser- 
vants, where fome fmall Water got into it. And this I 
have put down that ethers that live in thofe Parts may 
prevent tho(e great Damages they run, by taking fome 
Care beforehand; if they did obferve thofe Prognofticks,, 
and follow my Example. 
Laflly^ Reafbns and Caufes of thefe Hurricanes, ac- 
cording to Experimental Obfervations of my Time. 
This is fo difficult a Matter, that I do exped great 
Objedions thereto but I lhall raife fome my felf, and 
anfwer them, leaving the reft to better Judgments. 
It is not unknown to all Men of Experience, that to 
the Southward of the Tropicks there is conftantly a 
Trade- Wind, or Eafterly Wind, which goes from the 
North to the South-Eaft all the Year about ^ except | 
where, there are Revcrfions of Breezes , and In-Letts 1 
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