134 Account of a Remarkable Storm. 
er three or four rods west, of his store. I have repeatedly 
examined this place. The eastern gulley is estimated to be 
about twenty rods in length. Near its commencement it is 
ten or twelve feet deep onthe western side, and about six feet 
onthe eastern. The average width is abouttwo rods. Through- 
out a considerable part of its course, a ledge of red sandstone, 
horizontally stratified, forms the ‘bottom. Here it is less 
deep. Itcrosses the turnpike, and terminates at the bank 
of the creek. When this gulley was formed, the current of 
water ran directly by the side, and against a part of a dwell- 
ing house situated on the south side of the turnpike. A Mr. 
June, whose family occupied the main part of the building, 
in assisting to remove a sick woman in the evening, from 
that part which had become partially undermined, stepped 
from the door into the water, which was supposed to be 
about two feet deep. But such was the impetuosity of the 
current, which had already worn a channel ten feet deep, 
that in spite of every effort he was carried into the creek, 
and drowned. His corpse was found a day or two after- 
wards, about three quarters of a mile down stream. Avast 
quantity of earth, of stones, and rocks in rolled masses, some 
of them supposed to weigh a ton or upwards, were washed 
out, and forced into the creek, where they now remain, 
forming a new bank, of about one hundred feet in length, of 
about seventy feet in breadth, and of about eight or ten feet 
in height, above the former bed of the stream. There was 
no stream in this place previously to the storm. 
The western gully was occasioned by the prodigious rise 
and enlargement, of a small brook, which runs at its bottom. 
The usual width of this brook does not exceed a yard; its 
depth is inconsiderable. It crosses the turnpike road, and 
is crossed by a small bridge, ata little distance from which it 
empties into the Catskill. About six or eight rods south of the 
bridge stood a pretty large distillery; a few rods north of the 
bridge and near the mouth of the brook, was situated a plas- 
ter mill, a little further north was situated a spacious grist- 
mill, on the south bank of the creek. The water, during 
the storm, rose to such a height in the brook, that it under- 
mined the distillery. This lodged against the bridge, which 
soon gave way. The whole mass, together with the large — 
tubs of the distillery, and a prodigious quantity of earth and 
stones, which accompanied them in their descent, crowded 
