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they? are aware. It was the intertaining of them in Barbadoes & Jamaica that did first enrich those Islands, & now since there are strict orders from ye King against their being intertained there they have not such plenty of money, as formerly. They are intertained now in Saltotudoes & in South Carolina & some other places.

Their Whirlwinds or Gusts } They have seldom Hurricanes which shift about ; But they have frequent Gusts, which blow in a strait line & blow down unknown unknown is in their way. They move for some scores of miles. at their first appearance they are of ye breadth of a unknown unknown, but spread as ye go on, above a mile.