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an authentic account of the finking in of the fmaU 
river near Pontypool in Wales. It is written by an 
excife-cfHcer in that diftridt, and was put into my 
hands by Mr. Windham Bowyer, one of the com- 
miffioners of that board. 1 am, 
S I R, 
Pa!l-mall, Mar. 1 1. 
1756. 
Your mod obedient 
humble fervant. 
John Pringle. 
LXXX. An Account of the Sinking of a River 
near Pontypool in MonmouthThire ; in a 
Letter from Mr. Edward Matthews, to 
the Commijfi oners of the Excife . 
Honourable Sirs, 
Read Mar. i2,TT]\[ obedience to your honours orders of 
i? 5 6 - ^ the 14 th inftant, relating to the fink- 
ing of a river near Pontypool ; from my own obser- 
vation lad Friday (the fird time I faw it) and that 
of the neighbouring inhab tants, as under, is the 
bed account I am able to give of it. The hrd day 
of January lad, a poor woman living near its mouth 
fent her daughter for water (a great flood appearing 
in the river juft before) who returned in lurprize with 
die account, that it was dry. 
The 
