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loss of each description of property, but from the returns 

 made to them, they will be oblijj^ed to adopt a different course. 

 The loss of each individual (as furnished to them) will be 

 presented in the aggregate. So far as the agricultural interest 

 of the county is concerned, no estimate of individual losses 

 will be given, although in some instances it was very severe. 

 The destruction of crops and fences, and the ruin of meadow 

 lands are so wide spread, and embrace so many individual 

 cases as to forbid the committee from attempting more than a 

 general estimate, which they feel well assured is rather below 

 than above the amount of this kind of damage which was 

 actually sustained. 



Thirty-two of the county bridges were either wholly 

 destroyed, or seriously injured. It will be seen by the follow- 

 ing estimate, carefully made by competent persons, that it 

 will require an exj^enditure of twenty-four thousand, seven 

 hundred and twenty dollars to repair or rebuild the several 

 bridges within the county, which were damaged or destroyed 

 by the freshet : 



Darby Creek. — Darby bridge, - - - $2,000 



" Turnpike bridge, - - 250 



" West Chester road bridge, - 60 



" Leedom's bridge, - - 60 



*' Hood's bridge, - - 1,000 



Itheii Creek. — Radnor Meeting House bridge, 475 



Crum Creek. — Leiperville bridge, - - 25 



" Leiper's bridge, - - 250 



" Riddle's Factory bridge, - 400 



" Lewis' dam bridge, - 2,500 



" Beatty's bridge, - - 1,000 



" Holland's bridge, - - 250 



*' C. Palmer's mill bridge, - 50 



*' Bartram's l)ridge, - - 400 



" Howard's bridge, - - 1,000 



" West Chester road bridge, - 1,000 



Ridley Creek. — M'llvain's bridge, - - 700 



