The term hurricane, is supposed to take its rise from one Harry Kane, a turbulent Irishman who lived at Antigua, the name of which is now well known to be derived from an avaricious old female planter who once lived on the island, and was called by the sailors Aunt Eager.
A jolly West-Indian, whenever the neighbouring girls came to his plantations, insisted upon their sipping his choicest syrups, and reiterated the terms “My lasses;” thence the name of that syrup. Few words have aberrated from their primaries less than this.
For the New-York Weekly Magazine.
MARIA; OR, THE SEDUCTION.
A FRAGMENT.
“How curst the monster, who with specious guile,
“Employs Seduction’s soul-degrading arts,