Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-08-21


an extremely rapid motion down The har-
Dor. The foam and tpray next, forming
,lmoe an opake cloud, ippn along with
the fwiee pollole degree Of viGble moti-
on, and form itratum, as it were, CT 20
or 80 feet deep: and over that the rain
paGed in rarer medium. in perfectly
horizontal direction and appeared inca
pable of defending from its projeet;.e vc-
locity. BY half paR four the wind got
round to the eaf and kept veering rcund
with the lun-a certain iign thas the gale
would Tot continue long. It's violence,
however, as yet was undated.
Providentially, before 1t acquired any
iou:hing, the tide had fallen, and the vef.
f-!s having all been driven up at high wa
ter, none Of them were blown of In
which cafe they muit have gone to Tea;
and probably would have been loft, with
thc!e in them. About an hour before fun
fet, the wind had ihitied round to tou,h.or
fourth by welt, and till blew with grea:
violence; but the town and harbor wa:
70 iheitered by the hills, that it was yer
little felt. By iunfet it modera'ed-an,:
oy eight or nine at night, there was TO
thing remaining oft, bu, frefh gale.
We thank God, before we proceed to
recapitu!a;e the damages iuAained from the
hurricane, that 70 few lives have:been loft
in the elemental itrife, and c:a;h OF mat
ter. We have heard but OF two or three
tina. were drowned, and none that lott their
lives on the lhtre.
Ofall the yeiI.ls in the harbour, only
rode Oh: the aorm,viz. the tloop Primrofe,
an American, and Spaniiil vencl near the
ealtcrn tort. Between Evans hill, and
\Vefern Water Batter, we counted 40
yeatis itrandtd be!:te' which there were
Eycral funk, ard others cruihed to pieces,
and laying under other veaels, that We
could take 10 account Of.
The mott convincing procf OF the ex-
treme violence CT vino, and perhaps me
bett criterion We can adducc IS, that the
greater part OF al TIE seileis had their
mats blown away-not Cut, cut blown
away by the board. The prize Gum
man lott ali hers and her bowl rit, by the
lheer force Of the wind.
Several veneis we unde,Rard are hag-
ed and others, from the extreme d.fcus-
ty that would attend getting them eff
are abandoned. In general, however, W
are in hopes, the h-anded veiiels Will b.
aGoat, without much difficulty or damage
&c their hull.
On ihore, in the town, and its ,,cinity,
TIE devaita.;cns was eqaaily grca, ma
ny valuable houfes have been blown down.
ma all che fences ard trees i'll general, lad
level with the ground. Nearly ore haiic,
Mr.. Ioitrh Hal's beautiful grove OF cocoa
nut trees, were deitroyed, by being broken
# near the butt-one Ct which we ma-
flred, and found i: to be 7 ieer ] inchas
n circumference, jua above he part whde
i; was trci:cr
Mr.. A,iel F .rgufon' houG:, one of the
'arse} in town, was blown down !; md
he roo!, in falling had well nigh demo
I!:heo MIR. l!owie's houle adjoining. o.
,hcr new itone houfeS filtered comfortably, /!
from the mortar being m a moit tat ;
and gfea, many wooden houfes tel tran
the fame cauie, the Zone anderY lining lot
having had time 10 cement.
The {ea, to the fou;hward OF for' MIN
tasuc, maze breach ,hsoug the iaid his,
and has filled the ex,eu.ive valley to he |
weiwari OF il, many feet deer. 1t sto
roie five feet over the new eafern ca1e-
way, and the road, to the foot OF E ar,'s
hill which it has materially injrrd.
The ealern parade and burying place vas
completely overaowed by tie riGng of ne
alter in the harbour and tie fea Pasd
ina torrent, between the eii'or's houirln
the white ground, and the new road iii
then found its way into the harbour,oy |
pafYins over thecauieway and the road,'y !
CAPTAIN Gibbons, where it has made d lase |
eulley, and would have completely deitre |
Ell it, had not tie Uniting OF me VIZ
cccaEoned the water II tail IN th> uPF'
part OF the harbour.
To attempt to make an accurate eff |