apie of Long Lake and Mud Lake, in Vermont. 45 
the portion of ne hard-pan thus si ony unable 
to sustain the immense pressure, gave way. This occasion- 
ed a violent rushing of water to the deeper outlet thus form- 
ed; which initsturn, sinking under the hard-pan, and wash- 
ing down a still larger portion of the sand on which it rested, 
occasioned a still broader and deeper fracture of the hard- 
pan; and prepared the way for a still more violent gushing 
of the water, and a still wider and deeper gulf in the sands be- 
neath, until all traces of the original trench had vanished. 
hi 
uf was worn where the trench had been, several rods 
in width, and descending mamediately and rapidly towards 
Mud Lake. 
Just as the efflux of the water commenced, four or five of 
ing to cross its northern end, and on their way to sound an 
hurrah becoming the occasion; but, the alarm having been 
given, they put to shore, and had barely left the ground on 
which they landed, when it One of the others, 
aving remained. too long at work in. the trench, was struck 
by the torrent; and the ground being washed from beneath 
him, he would have been carried away, had he net been 
caught by the ae of his head. Another, waiting too long to 
wi ce of the water, was forced partly under 
the earth; and oe was owing probably to the momentary re- 
sistance presented by the roots of a large tree, against which 
he was driven, that‘he, and those who came to his assistance, 
were These : 
treat with r ‘the sides 
the language of one of them, they felt the , 
** quiver, quiver, quiver,” as they ran away with all possible 
-speed, to save their lives. Having all at length got out of 
Genataetiny £085 20m ground, near the lake, and on 
cides of the widening chasm, and observed the progres 
— the: 
As the water rushed from the southern commana tian Gort 
ern extremity, it forced up upon the shore alarge mass of 
* Lhad all this account of the F di fr = one of the men, who was 
lotus-in illis. : S 
