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shipping in the Harbor and the buildings Public and Private throughout the Colony generally. In the present state of the colonial finances this disaster is specially to be regretted.
I find myself powerless to undertake at once a Military Sanitarium upon the Peak some 1600 feet above the sea level. I was therefore fortunately in a position to judge of the force of the wind from all quarters, and I consider it most fortunate that the city was protected by these repairs, which may be regarded as a precaution naturally devolving specially on the Executive.
The chief fury of the storm was exerted when the wind suddenly veered from the N.E. to the SW. about 3 p.m. on the 22nd Instant. I happened at the time to be in the Mountain Lodge on the Hill, and was saved from the storm when it blew from the Southward. Otherwise, I fear many thousand lives would have been lost.
In a very short space of time, by the falling of an immense number of buildings in the city, many lives were lost in the city, both on shore and in the Harbor, though comparatively protected at...