Account of a Remarkable Storm. 125 
ACCOUNT OF A STORM, &e. 
several places in the mountainous country of New- 
England, it has been supposed by many of the inhabitants, 
that clouds have in various instances burst, or suddenly dis- 
charged great quantities of water. As the phenomena in- 
dicated by this phraseology have, in almost all instances, in 
which they have occurred, in that section of the country, 
existed in thinly settled regions, or in the might, in conse- 
quence of which the accounts given of them are imperfect ; 
suppose that it may be gratifying to some of your readers, 
2 see a detailed account of the storm, which occurred 
ere. 
This storm exhibited fh sta analagous to those, 
which have occurred from what is called the bursting of a 
cloud, and in some respects more rensdthable than any, of 
which I have hea 
To render the’ description more intelligible, a few ex- 
planatory observations may be u 
e township of Catskill is shakidd on the West side of 
the Hudson, and is bounded on the East by that river; on 
the North by the township of Athens; on the West by Cai- 
ro ; and on the South by Saugerties. The town is estima- 
ted to be about one hundred and twenty miles north from the 
city of New-York. Three rivers, or creeks, as they are 
this township ; the Kistatom, the Kaaterskill, apres the Cin. 
kill. The Kiskatom rises, iff am sabe informed, e 
tween the Catskill mountains and the Round Top,* 
mountain in Cairo; and runs about five miles in the tnvaalllp 
of Catskill, fod empties into the Kaaterskill. The Kaat- 
erskill is ne mill stream, which rises in the Catskill 
rmondliing: Nate empties into wed Catskill, about two miles 
from the gece of the latter str 
rises in , in Scoharie. ; pt ae af 
ter a course o it forty miles, into the Hudson. 
Catskill modatais = tie westward from the town, and are dis- 
tant from it in their nearest ike about seven or eight miles. 
e town is — along the creek, and commences at 
whan <y ty & if thew a a eae also called Round Top. 
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