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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



was 112 feet." Not to cast doubt upon these early observers, we may al- 

 low considerable for the inaccuracy of their instruments and suppose that 

 they struck a deep hole in the river in September. All accounts agree 

 that there was an uncommonly high river, and it was probably of longer 

 duration than ever since. 



1792. — During this year there was a great flood covering the land now 

 known as Columbia. The water must ^ave been more than sixty feet. 



1815. — Another great flood occurred this year, of less magnitude than 

 1792. 



1832. — The weather conditions of February, 1832, were very similar to 

 those that prevailed in February, 1883. A record of the former year at 

 Cincinnati is not attainable ; but Nathaniel Grates, who resided at (xallipolis, 

 Ohio, a point on the Ohio River not so far distant from Cincinnati as to 

 vary the conditions materially, made a daily record during the year, from 

 which the following excerpta refer to the month of February : 



"1st. — Warm and pleasant. 



2d. — Warmer. 



3d. — Warmer; 62°; snow going fast. 



4th. — Warmer; 68° ; snow all gone ; soft mud plenty ; river rising. 



6th. — Rainy and muddy; river over the banks. 



7th. — Cloudy and warm. 



8th and 9th. — Rain all the time; 60°. 



11th. — River rising; garden under water ; pleasant weather ; 67°. 

 12th. — Water rising fast; up to maxim. 



14th. — Highest water known since the flood by three feet, and rising yet. 



15th. — Water rising; houses, barns, hay and grain stacks in abundance. 



16th. — Water at its maximum — four feet and two inches higher than 

 ever seen by white men. 



17th. — Water begins to fall slowly ; the only towns on the Ohio banks 

 not inundated are Gallipolis, Burlington and a part of Maysville, and the 

 hill part of Cincinnati; all the fences and other movable property swept 

 from all the farms on the river bottom from Pittsburg to Louisville, and 

 how far below not yet known ; cloudy, rainy, dull, disagreeable weather. 



18th.— Water falling fast; warm; 60°. 



19th. — Rain all day; plenty of mud. 



20th. — Water out of the garden ; snows continually, mingled with rain ; 

 Oh, what a disagreeable winter! — nothing agreeable or cheerful. 

 21st. — Rained. 



22d. — Warmer; the sun appears twfce. 



