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anglesto the turnpike, somewhat exceeded one hundred and 
ty feet. Atthe near 
the margin of the plain, (which i in reference to the c creek, and 
its intervals, is a sharp hill, of about one hundred and fifty feet 
in height,) it was wide, and deep. The water from the above- 
mentioned field is supposed to have passed off into this gulley. 
Whatever the fact may have been, the gulley was at some 
period during the storm enlarged in an astonishing manner 
in length, breadth, and depth. The ground here, and 
throughout the plain, is composed of sand, covered by a rich 
bed of soil. In this place it was well turfed with short 
grass, and had as I suppose, never been dug, or ploughed. 
it was also, to some extent, covered with forest trees. The 
the old post-road to Albany, into the field abovementioned, 
it terminates ina point. At five paces from the west end it 
was thirty-six feet wide ; at seventeen paces fifty feet; and at 
thirty-two paces, seventy-five feet. That part of the ravine 
which was almost wholly formed at this time, extends from 
the west end about one hundred and ten paces. The width 
the | 
distance the ravine gradu widens, and grows a little 
deeper. The width near the margin is about. one hundred 
and ninety feet. 
About sixty or eighty rods northward from the tinaph 
on the old post road, another gully was formed, of about 
eightor ten rods* in n length, and in some places ten or tw 
feet deep. This has been to a considerable extent, filed 
om 
‘At Wooleott’s mills, two large slice were formed, about 
ten or twelve Nes apart, one six or eight rods east, the oth- 
_* This [ believe is an American word substituted for the rood, pole, or 
‘parthaf 04 fect, ¥ which it is used to express.—Fd. 
