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assemble togetber, and are almost 
v'^' "'hiiM impetuosity of the wind, in searching fot 
^li of , found, serves them only for destruction. 
’■ Whip^ houses are carried to vast distances from their 
ground, buiying their inmates 
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bra. . *’• ^arge trees are torn up by the roots, and 
C ^ifecf shivered off, and driveir through the air 
'■°4rir . '"'ith immense velocity. 
i'rr'^'at mimense velocity. Jiveiy tree and 
k/''*iaRp '“’^hinds the shock, is stripped of its boughs 
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Eveiy tree and 
v'*tii'‘‘^Se 111 — — »'■“ uuugiis 
:i>ii . "t sn ■ . grass are laid fiat to the earth, 
'lirefoi '|'®S ^ moment changed to dreary winter 
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'’ik^^stat it happens in a town, 
is " surveyed with accumulated horror : the 
sl,of^“'''®ted with wrecks of boats and vessels ; 
of r 1 *• '’®®tige of its former state remaining. 
V^bcl , Z’ , and rafters in one place; heaps of 
of hnks of trees in another ; deep gullies from 
h the dead and dying bodies of men, 
ftr ,*ttce(j children, half buried, and scattered about, 
s ® suiv- *■ ^ hours before weie, present to the 
^ shocking conclusion of a spectacle to 
K ^ tamine, and, when accompanied by an 
■ y tlr ^ diseases. 
picture of a hurricane in 
^mwnby Doctor Mostly, in his treatise 
tin coast hurricanes arc both fi'etyient and dls- 
A b\^T October, 1746, ilie French squadron, 
f iL'tiriio. Bourdonnai, being at anchor in Madras 
^hoT^ came on which in a few hours destroyed 
r fo ‘Siiiir ? tc.^ciher with twenty otlier 
^'^t;rcnt iiaLion.s, (Jne of the French 
the insUint, and only six of the crew were 
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'tliorry December, 1760, during the siege 
three’ l^tetnendous hurricane dror e on shore, and 
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iVf.e the ■"fitish tthijis belonging to the besieging 
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th, 
‘h® 20 th of October 
I/61, die Eritish fleet, dien lying ia 
t'‘lK^*^Put to encounter a violent lurrricane. The 
^ '’'■‘ssel ° were thus providentially saved ; 
^'®Ul 0^ "'hich still lay at anchor were lost, and 
f board saved. On the 2Qth of October, 
