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until the 27th, when a much warmer temperature 

 with a high wind was followed by extraordinary 

 torrents of rain. It was in the midst of the pitch- 

 dark night of the 28th that the dwellers in the Loch 

 Broom strath were woke from their sleep by the 

 alarming roaring of the river Broom, which told them, 

 only too plainly, that a flood of unusual violence was 

 raging. The morning light exhibited the valley in 

 a plight that will never be forgotten ; the whole strath 

 was one vast lake ; Inverbroom House with many 

 smaller ones were half submerged by the tearing 

 flood, on which great trees, together with the bodies 

 of cattle, sheep, and deer, were borne along at in- 

 tervals, while for weeks afterwards the road between 

 Loch Broom and Garve was rendered nearly useless, 

 as every bridge on it had been washed away, so 

 that passengers progressed but slowly from point to 

 point only by exchanging conveyances at every broken 

 bridge. 



The history of the Braemore plantation, already 

 mentioned as holding five million trees, and covering 



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