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fo loft ; befides many quick Goods. The left reputed to 
be many Thou(and Pounds. Many Families quite 
ruined ; others in part only. Such an Inftance hath not 
been heard of within Memory, confidering all Circum- 
ftances. Much more might be faid ; but, in fliort, this 
may fatisfy as an intelligible Account of what you re- 
quefted from^ 
roV R F R I E N D, 
Since the firft Flood that I have related, there have 
been Two others, though not fo great and dan- 
gerous : For the Towns have either of them a 
great Beck ("as we call it) or Current of Water 
runing through them, which by the firff Flood 
weregravel'd up; fo that the Paflage is much 
altered, and cannot be regained ; though there 
have been many Hundreds of Men fet to do it^ 
and Hundreds of a Day, 
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