“Account of a Remarkable Storm. 14] 
ihe effects of which I observed in the following September, 
while riding along its banks, and which will be visible for a 
century to come; and from the many large collections of 
stones, and rocks in rolled masses which were tumbled 
down the hills, from the sudden gushing of the water, in 
momentary brooks, and larger streams, and from the account 
published in the newspapers, I concluded that the quantity 
of water which descended in that region was as great, as at 
Catskill. It would be gratifying, if some gentleman in 
Chester would give the public, a detailed account of that 
storm. Between Catskill and Chester, which is upwards of 
fifty miles eastward, there was not in most places at the 
same period, an unusual quantity of rain, and in many pla- 
ces there was little or none. 
On the same afternoon, I rode on horseback, from Mon- 
trose, in Pennsylvania, distant from Catskill, in a south- 
western direction, about one hundred and thirty or one 
hundred and forty miles, to the Great Bend. About half 
past three o’clock, dense black clouds accompanied by 
lightning and thunder, rose up slowly from the south-west. 
At four o’clock a violent shower commenced, which contin- 
ued about an hour. As the clouds drew near I observed 
that they moved much more rapidly than I had supposed, 
and that they rolled along the hills below the tops of the 
forest trees. 
It would seem from these facts, that there was an unusu- 
al state of the atmosphere, operating in a greater or less de- 
gree, over an extensive tract of country. 
It is worthy of notice that on Thursday afternoon the fif- 
teenth of July, only eleven days before, an uncommon show- 
er occurred at Catskill. I left home that afternoon on 
horseback, on a journey to the westward. It had been 
cloudy through the day : the air was very close and sultry. 
I had not proceeded more than a mile before I was obliged 
to stop, on account of a very sudden shower, which came 
up from the south-west, attended with sharp lightning, and 
heavy thunder. The rain poured down in torrents. It was 
of a short continuance; but fell full six inches deep on a 
level. I thought at the time, that it was the most powerful 
rain which I had ever witnessed. An empty pail, standing 
in a garden near to my house, caught about six inches of 
water init. Considerable rain fell at other periods, during 
