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to pieces ; fcarce any thing remained (landing upon 
the ground. Thefe furious winds were accompanied 
with a violent rain, which refembled the mid; made 
by the agitation of waves, or like waters kept up by 
the wind. The temped lads till day-light, and fome- 
times continues pretty far in the day. In that in 1740, 
towards eight o’clock in the morning, it grew l'ud- 
denly calm for a quarter of an hour, and then re- 
turned again blowing from the fouth, with fuch vio- 
lence, that the buildings and trees, which were de- 
droyed by the north wind before, were blown about, 
and moved by the fird blad of that from the fouth. 
The hurricanes were followed by fo many particular 
and furpriting phenomena, which were almod in- 
credible, that I dare not report them : however, a 
philofopher, who is acquainted with the force and 
power of confined air and its eladicity, might admit 
them to be true. At the end of thefe, there appears 
lightening, and we can hear the noife of thunder : 
thefe are the figns of the temped’s being at an end ; 
for the wind foftcns gradually, and all becomes 
quiet. 
After thefe hurricanes the foreds appeared only 
like a parcel of dfip-mads or poles danding ; all the 
trees being dript of their leaves, and their branches 
broken off made a dreadful appearance, efpecially in 
thefe countries, where a perpetual verdure adorns the 
trees and fields. Every one was employed in repair- 
ing his lodes, and mending the difmal remains of the 
frightful wreck. 
In 1743, two years after the great hurricane, we 
had a dorm lefs violent than the two former. 1 hap- 
