140 Account of a Remarkable Storm. 
which was twelve feet in length, upwards of four feet in 
width, and two and a half in thickness, which was disenga- 
ged from its former position, and carried down stream, up- 
wards of one hundred and twenty feet. It now lies cross- 
wise to the current. The descent in this place is not very 
rapid. A few yards distant fiom this is another, which is 
supposed to have been originally united to it, and measuring 
seven feet in length. It is considerably wider and thicker 
than the main portion. At some distance below there is a 
fall in the brook, of fifteen or twenty feet, over a ledge of 
rocks, and several rods in width. Before the storm it was 
of inconsiderable magnitude. At the bottom of the fall a 
large cavity was formed in the rocks of between one and two 
rods in length, several yards in width, and estimated to be 
six or eight feet deep. A huge rock, which appears to 
have been formerly imbedded in this cavity, was disengag 
by the impetuous force of the waters, and carried down 
stream several rods, and near to the opposite bank. It lies 
lengthwise, or parallel to the current, a direction opposite 
to that, which it originally sustained. ‘This rock is upwards 
of twenty-one feet in length, six feet in width, and four in 
thickness. This fall is about a quarter of a mile in a south- 
ern direction from the turnpike road. Below the fall the 
bed of the stream is worn several yards deeper, than before 
the storm. Some remarkable ravages, as I am informed, 
were occasioned by the storm between the fall and -, 
mouth of the brook, and between the road and the sour 
of the brook. A number of the foregoing assertions ve 
made on the authority of Mr. Anthony Abeel, a respectable 
farmer, who resides in the near neighbourhood, and who 
accompanied me to the spot when I visited it. 
In most of the places, where the foregoing rav oi 
exist, it seems probable that a : beat quantity of rain 
scended than in the town ; and this is the general pinta 
of the inhabitants, residing i in those neighbourhoods. 
he whole amount of damage occasioned by the storm, 
in the hagrinds was estimated by judicious persons; to have 
exceed ed fifty thousand dollars 
ing the same afternoon thee e was a remarkable de- 
scent of rain, in the township of Chester, i in Massachusetts, 
and in some portion of the adjoining country. From t 
great rise which took place in the waters of Chester river, 
