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X* A Copy df a Letter from R. P. Vicar ofKxU 
d wick in Yorkfhirc, to a Friend of his in 
thoje Farts^ wherein he gives an Account of an 
^Extraordinary Eruption of Water ^ which hap- 
pened in June, 1 686. 
Worthy Sity 
I Have now drawn a full, though fhort, Account 
of the great Lofs fuftained by the Inhabitants ot Ket- 
tlemll and Starhotton^ in Craven^ in the County of 
Tork'^ by afudden overflow of Water The Towns are 
fituate upder a great Hill on the Eaft and Weft ; the 
Country is very mountainous aud Rocky. The Defcent 
of the Rain was after a Thunder-Clap, for the Continue 
ance of about an Hour and, half, with extraordinary 
Violence, and by feveral Eye-witnefies, the Rock on 
the Eaft fide opened vifibly, and Water they beheld 
thence into the Air, the height of an ordinary Church- 
Steeple fo that the Current of Water came down the 
Hill into the refpedive Towns, as in one entire Body, 
and with a Breaft as if it would have drowned the whole 
Towns. Several Houfes were quite demoliftied, and not 
a Stone left; others gravel'd to the Chamber- Windows; 
fome Inhabitants driven, until this Day, from their Ha- 
bitations , the Current of the Water running through 
their Houfes; mighty Rocks defcended from the Moun- 
tains into the Valley, and there lie immovable ; many 
fair Meadows cover'd with Sand and Stones, that the 
Worth of the Soil will not regain the fame. Houfliold- 
goods taken away into the great River of Wharfe, and 
fo 
