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anglestothe turnpike, somewhat exceeded one hundred and 
fifty feet. Atthe west end it was of inconsiderable extent; near 
the margin of the plain, (which inreference to the creek, and 
its intervals, is a sharp hill, of about one hundred and fifty feet 
in height,) it was wide, and deep. The water from the above-~ 
mentioned field is supposed to have passed off into this gulley. 
Whatever the fact may have been, the gulley was at some 
period during the storm enlarged in an astonishing manner 
in length, breadth, and depth. The ground here, and 
throughout the plain, is composed of sand, covered by a rich 
bed of soil. In this place it was well turfed with short 
grass, and had as I suppose, never been dug, or ploughed. 
It was also, to some extent, covered with forest trees. The 
dimensions of the present ravine as measured by myself, in. 
company with a friend, by means of a line, August 1819, 
were as follows. At the west end, where it extends across 
the old post-road to Albany, into the field abovementioned, 
it terminates ina point. At five paces from the west end it 
was thirty-six feet wide ; at seventeen paces fifty feet; and at 
thirty-two paces, seventy-five feet. That part of the ravine 
which was almost wholly formed at this time, extends from 
the west end about one hundred and ten paces. The width 
in this place is about one hundred and fifty feet, and the 
depth about eighty. From this place to the margin of the 
plain the distance is about fifty paces. Throughout this 
distance the ravine gradually widens, and grows a little 
deeper. The width near the margin is about one hundred 
and ninety feet. 
About sixty or eighty rods northward from the turnpike, 
on the old post road, another gully was formed, of about 
eightor ten rods* in length, and in some places ten or twelve 
feet deep. This has been to a considerable extent, filled 
up, and the adjoining grounds lowered. About one hun- 
dred rods distant from this place, in a north-western course, 
a large and deep ravine, having several branches, was 
excavated, being about ninety paces in length, and from 
two to six rods in width. Generally, it was from two to 
four rods in width, and in some places thirty or forty feet 
deep. : 
At Woolcott’s mills, two large gullies were formed, about 
tien or twelve rods apart, one six or eight rods east, the oth- 
* This I believe isan American word substituted for the rood, pole, or 
perch of 164 feet, which it is used to express.—Kd. 
