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try appeared like an extenfive lake. Many hogs, other live flock, 

 poultry, with much of the produce of the laft unfortunate harveft, 

 and the domeftic effecls of the people, were hurried away by the tor- 

 rent. Fortunately, however, only one life was loft. 



This was a mod ferious calamity ; and, no caufe having appeared 

 to indicate an approaching overflow of the river, the fettlers were not 

 prepared for fuch a difafter. It was faid, that the natives forefaw it, 

 and apprifed the inhabitants. There could, however,, be no doubt, 

 that, unpereeived by our people, a heavy fall of rain had taken place 

 in the interior of the country, among the mountains ; and which, 

 from the parched ftate of the land for fuch a length of time, had in 

 no part been abforbed, but ran down the fides of the hills, as from 

 mountains of folid rock, filling all the low grounds, and branches of 

 the river ; which, being in form fuddenly ferpentine, could not give 

 vent fo fall as the waters defcended. 



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