456 
ATMOSPHERICAL PHENOMENA. 
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7 66, another hurncane was, on the coast 
fatal to the 
XI sea. 
Chatham Indiaman, which 
In the West Indies, the late tremendous hutt'^^Vg h| 
of 
21st of October, 1817, was particularly severe fg|yj‘'|; 
of St. Lucie. All the vessels in the port were 
The Goveinment-house was blown down, T cljil^'rf 
walls, comprising the Governor, his lady 3U 
staff, secretaries, servants, &c. amounting t° 
persons, buried in its ruins : not one survived 
accident ; and, still more hornd to relate, tbe 
nv.\.iu,^,iL , aiiu, aiiji JllViXiu lu icoxw, . 
the officers and soldiers were demolished, 
them (about two hundred persons) lost. Ah ' not'’!; i 
(about 
persons) 
the island were reduced to a heap of ashes. 
nearly the whole of the town 
immense destruction of property 
was 
, ini' 
inundatedi (i 
In Great Britain, a dreadful hurricane, cornnioe 
great storm, set in at ten at night, on the 26tli or ^ 
1703, and raged violently until seven f 
It extended its ravages to every part of the gliy 
, upwards of two thousand stacks iglii>y 
tlie capital, upwards 
were blown down. The lead on the tops of 
was rolled up like skins of parchment. Man/.^g 
levelled with the ground , and, by the fiiH of ' jjgd- j./ 
persons were killed, and more than 3CX5 
ships in the Thames brok* from their moorinS^^.jjji ^'Ji- 
died whenies were lost, and many barges 
loss of lives. At sea the destruction was still 
ships of war, with upwards of eighteen huu' 
board, were totally lost, together witli many 
nrer^*' 
THE MONSOONS, 
The setting in of the Monsoon, or tropica) 
the East Indies, is tlius described by Forbes *•* 
4 
rj 
Memoirs. The scene 
army was encamped. 
was at Baroche, wbf ® / 
“The shades of eveO'nS .flif / 
as we reached tlie ground, and just as the x. 
completed, the atmosphere grew suddenly 
became oppressive, and an u.sual 
stillness 
immediate setting in of the monsoon. Tl'®. 'j*gs ‘j’j,;]) 
ance of nature resembled those solemn ^ w 
quakes and limrtcanes in tlie West Indies, 
