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and had run over. Several persons, who had examined it 
from time to time, were of opinion, that no water could have 
fallen into it, except that which descended directly from the 
clouds. In front of the house, on the south side, is a large 
court yard. From the gate to the front door is a gravelled 
walk, several rods in length. ‘This walk is raised higher 
than the adjoining grounds on each side. ‘The owner re- 
turning home a little before sunset, found the water on this 
walk, from six inches to a foot deep. The water at this 
height must have been constantly and rapidly passing off in- 
to the creek. It is not known that water has been accumu- 
lated here from any other rain, to the depth of half an inch. 
About forty or fifty rods N. W. from this place, a small 
wash-tub, standing in open ground, being twelve inches in 
depth, and having two inches of water in it when the rain 
commenced, was observed about sunset to be full and run- 
ning over. How long it had been filled is not known. 
Two empty potash kettles, each of the capacity of ninety 
gallons, standing on the west sides of a high and spacions 
building, about the middle of Main-street, the one about 
twelve, the other about sixteen feet from the building, so 
situated that they probably caught no water, except that 
which descended perpendicularly from the clouds, were 
nearly or quite filled. Much of the rain descended in a 
very slanting direction. 
A common sized pail, in a yard fifty rods north, anda 
wash-tub, in another yard, were both filled, and ran over, be- 
fore sunset. 
A large bathing-tub, situated on the west side of a high 
building, and so posited that it could not probably have 
caught more than two thirds as much as it would have done 
in open ground, had thirteen inches of water in it. 
At Mr. John Ashley’s farm, five miles west from the court 
house, a common sized wash-tub, standing in open ground, 
was filled, and ran over, before sunset. 
I have been credibly informed that, at Madison, in a field, 
lying north of the turnpike, a large tub, estimated to be six- 
teen inches in depth, and an iron kettle, of the capacity of 
twelve to fifteen gallons, both empty when the rain com- 
menced, and both standing many yards distant from any 
building, were filled, and ran over. 
