8o THE FLOOD OI' 1S43. 



paratively few facts whicli will he acUk-d, will be such as 

 have a geological bearing, or which more appropriately 

 belong under the head of this section. 



Many places along all the creeks exhibit the denuding 

 power of the flood, which swept along their vallies in a strik- 

 ing manner. \'ery many meadows are greatly damaged by 

 having the soil removed in some places, and large deposits of 

 stones, gravel and sand made in others. The sites of many 

 gardens, or beautiful plots of grass, now exhibit nothing but 

 the naked rock, or lie buried beneath a mass of detritus, sev- 

 eral feet in depth. The beds of the streams are in many 

 places deepened, and in others wholly or partially filled up. 



On Ithen creek, near J. Evans' mill, a trap rock, more 

 than seven feet long and two feet square, was removed many 

 yards from the place where it had before laid. Near this 

 place the channel of the creek was deepened six feet, and a 

 short distance below its bed, was nearly filled with large and 

 small stones. 



On Darby creek the denuding power of the flood was 

 exhibited in a very extraordinary manner, on the estate of 

 Thomas Garrett, deceased. The surface from a considerable 

 portion of the valley of the creek was carried away, and in 

 many places to a great depth. It will be remembered that an 

 unoccupied house was carried from these premises. Not onl>- 

 every vestige of the house was removed, but the earth has 

 been excavated to a considerable depth below its foundations. 

 At Lobb's cotton factory, occupied by D. & C. Kelly, several 

 iron shafts, were carried a distance of one hundred feet, and 

 lodged in the tail race of the mill. One of these shafts was 

 ten feet long and six inches square and was partly buried in 

 the earth. There was, however, a small iron wheel attached 

 to one end of this large shaft, which nt) doubt aided in its 

 transportation. A short distance below, a rock estimated to 

 weigh about two and a half tons, was carried from the bed of 

 the creek, and now lies two hundred yards below, on an 

 adjoining flat. 



