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IN SUBAQUEOUS DEPOSITS. 



537 



part of tlie lake it is strong enough to bear tlie heaviest 



weights. 



Flood in the Solway Firth^ 1794. — One of the most memor- 

 able floods of modern date, in onr island^ is that which 

 visited part of the southern borders of Scotland, on the 24th 

 of January, 1794, and which spread particular devastation 

 over the country adjoining the Solway Firth. 



We learn from the account of Captain Napier, that the 

 heavy rains had swollen every stream Avhich entered the 

 Fhth of Solway ; so that the inundation not only carried 

 away a great number of cattle and sheep, but many of the 

 herdsmen and shepherds, Avashing down their bodies into the 

 estuary. After the storm, when the flood subsided, an extra- 

 ordinary spectacle was seen on a large sand-bank called ' the 

 beds of Esk,' where there is a meeting of the tidal waters, 

 and where heavy bodies are usually left stranded after great 

 floods. On this single bank were found collected together 

 the bodies of 9 black cattle, 3 horses, 1,840 sheep, 45 dogs, 

 180 hares, besides a great number of smaller animals, and^ 

 mingled with the rest, the corpses of two men and one 



woman."^ 



Floods in Scotland^ 1829. — In those more recent floods in 

 Scotland, in August, 1829, whereby a fertile district on the 



east 



became a scene of dreadful desolation, a vast 



number of animals and plants were washed from the land^ 

 and found scattered about after the storm, around the mouths 

 of the principal rivers. An eye-witness thus describes the 

 scene which presented itself at the mouth of the Spey, in 

 Morayshire : — * 



For several miles 



were employed in endeavouring to save the wood and other 

 wreck with which the heavy-rolling tide was loaded ; whilst 

 the margin of the sea was strewed with the carcasses of 

 domestic animals, and with millions of dead hares and 



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boldt, that during the periodical swellings of the large rivers 

 in South America great numbers of quadrupeds are annually 



^' Treatise on Practical Store Farm- Morayshire, 1829; and above, Vol. 1. 



ing, p. 25. 

 t Sir T. 



p. 349. 



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