The father and mother, Hayward and his wife, with their 

 infant four months old, were killed by the fall of the brick and 

 timber portion of the building ; the wreck of which was scattered 

 over the field below in a confused heap, with many tons of loose 

 earth. Only the brick foundations remained where the house 

 stood, which was a one-storied brick and thatch structure. 



An unfortunate sheep that had sought shelter from the storm 

 was found dead under the ruins. Sergeant Hood of the County 

 Constabulary, who was one of the search party early the same 

 morning, stated that a live sheep jumped out and ran away. 



George Mount, living in the cottage to the eastward, about a 

 furlong otf, and who gave shelter to the children, stated that the 

 water ran down the hill like a waterfall, making a great noise. For 

 some weeks after the track of the water was very evident, the loamy 

 beds on the top of the chalk, and the rubble of a much older fall, 

 overgrown with grass, having been carried down by the rush of 

 water, which could be traced as far as Danton Pinch, a farm half-a- 

 mile below. 



During the late severe winter many small lakes might have been 

 observed on the surface of the frozen chalk, which under ordinary 

 tempetatures is far too porous to allow water to collect on its surface. 

 This condition of things was a remarkable confirmation of the theory 

 which, if it did not originate with, has had the sanction of G. 

 Dowker, F.G.S., and Clement Reid, F.G.S., that the valleys of the 

 chalk were formed under similar conditions, longer continued, at the 

 close of the Glacial Period. 



The dry ditch under the ancient city walls of Canterbury was 

 through the same cause filled with water, which under ordinary 

 circumstances can never be the case, owing to the porous nature of 

 the soil. 



The picturesque valley in which Maydeacon and Broome Hall 

 stand was in a similar manner flooded to such an extent that a 

 valuable stud of hunters was nearly drowned. 



In connection with the same subject, it is of interest to remark 

 that the slopes of the hills and sides of the coombes seldom exceed 

 30°, and I have never found any exceeding 40°, except in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the fortifications where they have been artificially 

 scarped. 



These angles of slope were taken with a clinometer, having 

 parallel bars two feet and a half in length. 



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