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.
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_For the +New-York Weekly Magazine+._
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