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away the plaster mill. The whole was precipitated down 
the bank into the creek, and broke through a part of the 
grist mill, which soon became so far undermined, that it 
tumbled down, a day or two afterwards. 
The quantity of earth, and stones, and rocks in rolled 
masses, carried into the creek, from the brook, 1s greater 
than from the eastern gulley. ‘The length of the heap, 
(which unites with the lower one,) and forms a new bank, 
interior to the old one, is about one hundred and eighty 
feet; the width about one hundred : and the average height 
above the former bed of the stream, as much as five or six. 
Among the stones and rocks in rolled masses, washed out 
from these two gullies, and lying before hid under the soil, 
are several superb specimens of petrified marine shells, 
some of them agglutinated in considerable masses, and hav- 
ing an argillaceous, and calcareous cement. 
About one mile westward, on the same road, is a small 
brook, usually containing not more water, than might pass 
through a cylindrical tube of six inchesin diameter. Here 
the water accumulated to such a degree, that the brook 
overflowed all its banks, and became of the size and force 
of a large and rapid mill stream. A blacksmith’s shop 
standing a little westward from the brook, was carried off, 
anda large ravine excavated. Generally, ravages occurred 
here, similar to those which existed at Woolcott’s mills ; and 
a considerable number of rocks, estimated to weigh from 
half a ton to a ton each, were driven by the current many 
rods into the creek. It will be recollected, that a mile west 
from this place, the rain was moderate. 
In the neighbourhood of Madison, the storm produced 
ravages not less remarkable. At no great distance north- 
ward from the village is a mountain, estimated to be six 
hundred feet perpendicular height, above the plain below. 
The south end of this mountain, which abuts upon the flat, 
which I mentioned as having probably been the bed of an 
ancient lake, is about one mile north north-west from Madi- 
son church. The brow of the mountain here, is about half 
the elevation of the summit. There is at this place a ledge 
of horizontal rocks, running a considerable distance, and ter- 
minating abrupily, with a perpendicular precipice of twenty 
or thirty feet. ‘Phe surface of the mountain descends from 
some distance back ta this place. The water accumulating 
