. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. m: AUDUBON quids from one cheek to the other, and our pilot having covered himself with his oil jacket, we followed his ex- ample. " Blow, sweet breeze," cried he at the tiller, and " we '11 reach the land before the blast overtakes us, for, gentlemen, it is a furious cloud yon," A furious cloud indeed was the one which now, like an eagle on outstretched wings, approached so swiftly that one might have oeemed it in haste to destroy us. We were not more than a cable's length from the shore, wh
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. m: AUDUBON quids from one cheek to the other, and our pilot having covered himself with his oil jacket, we followed his ex- ample. " Blow, sweet breeze," cried he at the tiller, and " we '11 reach the land before the blast overtakes us, for, gentlemen, it is a furious cloud yon," A furious cloud indeed was the one which now, like an eagle on outstretched wings, approached so swiftly that one might have oeemed it in haste to destroy us. We were not more than a cable's length from the shore, when, with an imperative voice, the pilot calmly said to us, " Sit quite still, gentlemen, for I should not like to lose you overboard just now; the boat can't upset, my word for that, if you will but sit still — Here we have it!" Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the South, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific gran- deur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry, to quench its thirst. No respite for an instant does it afford to the objects within the reach of its furious current. Like the scythe of the destroying angel, it cuts everything by the roots, as it were, with the careless ease of the experienced mower. Each of its revolving sweeps collects a heap that might be likened to the full- sheaf which the husbandman flings by his side. On it goes with a wildness and fury that are indescribable, and when at last its frightful blasts have ceased. Nature, weep- ing and disconsolate, is left bereaved of her beauteous ofif- spring. In some instances, even a full century is required before, with all her powerful energies, she can repair her loss. The planter has not only lost his mansion, his crops, and his flocks, but he has to clear his lands anew, covered and entangled as they are with the trunks and branc
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