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point where it is joined by Ithen creek, and for a short dis- 

 tance below. Near Wright's saw-mill, where the creek had 

 room to spread several hundred feet, the flood only attained a 

 height of nine feet four inches. The mill dam and race of 

 Clement 6t William P. Lawrence was considerably injured— 

 the saw-mill damaged to some extent, and lumber belonging 

 to several persons was carried away. These mills are located 

 at the point where the creek is crossed by the West Chester 

 road. More than one hundred feet of the western wing walls 

 and filling of the stone bridge at this place were swept away 

 to the foundations, and the abutments considerably under- 

 mined. At this point on the creek, both above and below 

 the bridge, the flood attained a height of thirteen feet nine 

 inches, and was at its greatest height at a (juarter before 8 

 o'clock. At Joseph B. Leedom's flour and saw-mill, but 

 little damage was sustained, they being located on a curve of 

 the valley of the creek, which saved them from the force of 

 the current. At this point the water rose to a height of thir- 

 teen feet two inches. The stone bridge, a short distance 

 below Leedom's mills, had a large proportion of its guard 

 walls swept ofi". The flood attained a height of fifteen feet at 

 this place, with a cross section of eighty yards, which with 

 proper allowances, would give an area of two thousand eight 

 hundred square feet. The next bridge below, near William 

 W. Clement's, which is built on the lattice plan, in conse- 

 quence of being located on a western curve of the creek, with 

 a flat of more than seven hundred and fifty feet at its eastern 

 end, sustained no injury. In fact the bridge was not sub- 

 jected to the least danger from drifting timber, <S:c., as the 

 current of the flood ceased to pass near the ordinary channel 

 of the creek, long before it attained its maximum height. 

 About a fourth of a mile below this bridge, near the foot of 

 K. Levis' meadow, the flood reached the height of fourteen 

 feet six inches. A few hundred yards below this point, in 

 the timber land of X. Oarrett, deceased, it attained a height 

 of seventeen feet, being six feet six inches higher than the 



