130 Account of a Remarkable Storm. 
door, was unable to see any part of a large barn, only four 
rods distant. Some time after the clouds met, two differ- 
ent persons residing in this house, distinctly observed a 
water spout, rising up from the river, and nearly opposite, 
with a broad bottom, and ascending with a whirling mo- 
tion to the clouds, in form of a pretty regular cone. The 
innkeeper some time in the afternoon, noticed two other 
water spouts, from three fourths of a mile to a mile up 
stream. ‘These rose up in like manner, with broad bot- 
toms, and terminated in points, as they reached the clouds. 
At what period these phenomena occurred, they could not 
distinctly recollect. The whole quantity of water which 
fell at the Point, is estimated to have exceeded fifteen inch- 
es upon a level. J am persuaded that this estimate is not 
too large. 
The rain extended with equal, or greater, violence about 
eight miles west, from the Point, about three miles north, 
and about seven miles south. Onthe east side of the Hud- 
son, ata little distance, it did not descend with peculiar 
violence, or ina very unusual quantity. At Athens, four 
miles north, it was far less severe, than in Catskill; and at 
Cairo, ten miles west, it was light. Should we then esti- 
mate the whole tract, on which the rain descended with 
peculiar violence, and in quantities never before known, in 
this section of the country, since its first settlement at eighty 
square miles, we probably should not be very wide from the 
truth ; and on this whole tract, Iam persuaded that, the 
water fell full fifteen inches upon a level. On a considera- 
ble part of the tract, there is reason to believe that, the 
quantity exceeded eighteen inches. 
In proof of the correctness of this estimate, I alledge the 
following facts. 
Main-street was flooded to such a degree that, notwith- 
standing the descent to the creek is rapid, a sloop’s boat 
might have sailed, in many parts of it, without difficulty, 
and for a considerable time. 
A large tub, measuring twenty-six inches across at the top, 
in the inside, and very nearly as large at the bottom, and 
fifteen and a half inches deep, was standing in an open yard, 
about thirty rods west of the south end of Main-street, and 
north of the dwelling house of Mr. J.D. It was empty 
when the rain commenced, and before sunset it was filled, 
