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done it without being censured by the Italians, by whom he was rather ap- 

 plauded? this I must own is beyon() my faith to believe. 



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 An Account of a Storm of Rain that fell at Denbigh in Wales. Communicated 



to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. S. N° 308, p. 2342. 



Tuesday the l6th of July 1706, about 8 o'clock in the morning, it began to 

 rain in and about Denbigh, which continued incessantly for 30 hours, but not 

 very violently till about 3 or 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning, when it rained 

 somewhat faster, attended with a terrible noise like thunder, with some flashes 

 of lightning, and a boisterous wind. About break of day the rain and wind 

 began to abate of their violence, lessening gradually till about 1 or 2 o'clock in 

 the afternoon, when it quite ceased, and the air became clear and somewhat 

 calm. On the Tuesday the wind blew south west, but on the Wednesday it 

 was come to the north west. 



The effects of this great storm were dismal, for it caused the overflowing of 

 all the rivers in Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Merionethshire, &c. which 

 spoiled a great deal of corn, and took off^ all the hay that was mowed, near the 

 banks of the rivers, which was carried by the stream in such vast quantities 

 down to the bridges that it choked the arches and inlets, so as to break down 

 above a dozen large bridges. Great oaks and other large trees were rooted up 

 and swept away, with several quickset hedges ; and some quillets, by the side 

 of the river Elwy, were so covered with stones and gravel, that the owners can- 

 not well tell whereabouts their hedges and landmarks stood ; and the same river 

 has altered its course in some places, so as to rob the landlords on one side of 

 some acres, and bestowed as much on the opposite side. Two or three rivulets 

 that conveyed water to some mills have been so choked up with stones and 

 gravel, as to make it hardly worth the expence of clearing. 



It is affirmed by many people that the great floods were not so much the 

 effects of the rain, as the breaking out of a vast number of springs, in such 

 places as they were never known to flow from before. In the town of Den-' 

 high a great many broke out in the houses and stables, especially in that part 

 which lies next the castle on the north side ; some of them with a great deal of 

 violence, and in such a quantity, that it is said that three of these new springs, 

 which flowed out of the stables of the three noted inns, viz. the Bull, Cross 

 Keys, and Boar's Head, were sufficient to turn any corn mill. 



At a small distance, northward of Denbigh, lies Park-Snodiog, a rocky hill, 

 out of which issued a great many springs, which flowed so plentifully for 9 

 or 10 days, that the cattle watered at them all that time; whereas, before and 

 after, the people were forced to water them all summer at a well in the high- 



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