Excerpt from The West Indies: The Natural and Physical History of the Windward and Leeward Colonies: With Some Account of the Moral, Social, and Political Condition of Their Inhabitants, Immediately Before and After the Abolition of Negro Slavery The hurricane OF 1831.-a full Account of all the Phenomena previous to, and during the continuance of, this awful Visi tation. - Anecdotes of Persons miraculously preserved, and of the force of the Wind - Attempt to account for the Cause of these awful Visitations. - Regularity of the Under current of Air, or trade-winds, blowing from East to West. - Proofs that an Upper-current blows from West to East. - Account of the Volcano of St. Vincent's, in l8l2. - Alarm created in Barbados. - The effects in St. Vincent's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.