132 Account of a Remarkable Storm. 
About six miles south of the court house, an empty barrel, 
standing in open ground, caught eighteen inches of water. 
At Woolcott’s mills several persons compared the descent 
of rain, to water running through a riddle. ; 
The effects produced by the storm, were such, as were 
never known to have occurred, in any other instance, in this 
vicinity. 
There were no remarkable ravages at the Point, nor in 
the village. From the banks of a brook, which crosses the 
turnpike road, about one quarter of a mile above the north 
end of Main-street, and empties into the Creek, some thou- 
sands of tons of earth, and stones, and rocks in solid masses, 
were washed out, and borne, chiefly on to the flats, or left 
remaining within the present banks. This ravage did not 
exceed a third of a mile in length. Near the mouth of this 
brook the ascent up the hill, to the Jefferson plain, com- 
mences. Near the top of the hill several large gullies were 
formed, on the south-western edge of the road. These are 
now greatly altered in their appearance. Atthe cross-roads, 
in the village of Jefferson, the rain was so abundant, about 
6 o’clock, and the cloud so low and dense, that one of the 
inhabitants, a man of observation, was unable to discern a 
pretty large dwelling house, only four rods distant from his 
own door, where he was standing. On Jefferson plain the 
water covered the ground generally, to such an extent, that 
it ran into the doorways of many barns, and covered the 
floors, to the depth of several inches. On a field lying 
south-west from the turnpike, and containing about thirty 
acres, it was supposed by several of the inhabitants, that the 
water sometime before sunset, stood about eighteen inches 
deep on a level. As the plain is nearly level, it seems im- 
probable that much water should have run from other 
grounds, on to this. This estimate, therefore, I suppose is 
too large. The water from this ground is conjectured to 
have passed off chiefly in one place. On the south-eastern 
margin of the plain (which formed at some remote period, 
as I suppose, the bank of a lake,) about thirty rods distant 
from the turnpike road, there was previously a gulley, of 
considerable extent, worn down in the progress of ages by 
the current of a small spring, at the bottom, and by successive 
rains. The exact dimensions of this gulley cannot now be as- 
certained. Itslength, from the margin of the plain north-west- 
ward, towards the old post-road to Albany, which runs at right 
