132 Account of a Remarkable Storm. 
About six miles south of the court house, an empty barrel, 
—, in open ground, caught eightee n inches of water. 
‘At Woolcott’s mills several persons compared the descent 
of rain, to water running through a riddle. 
e effects produced by the storm, were such, as we 
never known to have occurred, in any other instance, in this 
vicinity. 
There were no remarkable —— at the Point, nor in 
the village. From the banks of a brook, which crosses the 
turnpike road, about one quarter ‘of a mile above the north 
end of Main-street, and empties into the Creek, some thou- 
sands of tons of éarth, and stones, and rocks in solid masses, 
remaining within the present banks. This ravage did not 
exceed a third of a mile in length. Near the mouth of this 
b the ascent up the hill, to the Jefferson plain, com- 
mences. Near the top of the bill several large gullies were 
and de 
inhabitants, a man of observation, was unable to discern a 
pretty large dwelling house, only four rods distant from his 
own door, where he was standing. On Jefferson plain the 
water covered the ground generally, to such an extent, that 
it ran into the doorways of many barns, and covere 
floors, to the depth of several inches. On a Sores lying 
south-west from the turnpike, and contain out thirty 
acres, it was supposed by several of the bahabpeains; that the 
water sometime before sunset, stood about eighteen inches 
deep on a level. As the plain is nearly level, it seems im- 
probable that mucl water should have run from other 
grounds, on to this. ‘This estimate, therefore, I suppose is 
too large. The water from this ground is conjectured to 
have passed off chiefly in one place. On the south-eastern 
margin of the plain (which formed at some remote period, 
as I suppose, the bank of a lake,) about thirty rods distant 
frou the turnpike road, there was previously a gulley, of 
considerable extent, worn down in the progress of ages by 
the eurrent of a small spring, at the bottom, and by successive 
rains. The exact oP 08 of this  gulley cannot now be as- 
certained,. TItslens 
ward, towards the ed post-read to Albany, which runs at right 
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