THere has happened near this place ſo ſtrange and ſad an accident, that I think the like has been ſeldom known; On Saturday laſt about 10 of the Clock in the day, we heard much 1 hunder, which 15 miles from hence made many great breaches in a Mountain, and ſuch pours of water tell upon the places ſo broaken up, That the Flood hurried the looſened earth with it to the bottom, and ſwelled a brook which ran there (and which comes into the River by this place) ſo ſudenly and ſo high, that it carryed away all that ſtood before it; people who lived near the bank had not time to get out of their houſes, but with Goods, Houſes and all were ſwept along with it and periſhed, the beaſts that fed near it were loſt, the very fiſh were ſtiſted by the earth which the currant brought with it great quantities of Salmon, of Trouts, Lampreys (which I never ſaw here before) even the Eeles that live in mud were choked and thrown dead upon the ſhore. And I do not believe there is one fiſh alive in the River, from the Mountains to the Sea. My curioſity took me yeſterday to the place where this new kind of Deluge began, and truly I was amazed to ſee a Mountain torn in above 10 ſeveral places, and all the low ground by the River for 10 miles together covered with the Ruins, the Corn fields buried, & the people proking in the mud and earth for the bodies of their Friends, & of their Cattle: I cannot yet learn exactly how many have periſhed, but by the accounts that are given, there are loſt in ſeveral places 50 Souls and abundance of Cattle.

SIR, A Prodigious accident fell in Monter lony on Saturday the 26th of this Inſtant June, a Thunderclap forced the bowels of a great mountain belonging to one Gloud Hamilton, after which enſued the fall of a prodigious Cloud, which entring the Cavities of the ſaid mountain made by the Thun der, Its weight bore the greateſt part of the mountain before it, which made ſuch a deluge of puddle, that that part of it which fell into Glenally-water that runs towards Newtown-ſtewart, drowned 19 perſons in their houſes, turned the who'e vallies for 8 or 9 miles in length that were meadows and Corn into a D • ſert of Dirt a foot thick, and hath killed all the fiſh in the River for 20 miles in length, the other hall of this Cloud ſell into the Row-water that runs through the County of Londonderry has drowned 31 perſons and forced away the Stonebridg at Limavady.

I Preſume you will have the following newes more at large than here I give you. On Saturday laſt happened a very great Thunder with Hail and Rain in theſe parts but eſpeciall about 16 or 20 miles from hence, inſomuch that it hath not only tore up a Mountain of near 200 Actes but the Cloud breaking thereon, hath carried all the ſuriace of the Earth in that compaſs into all the Rivers round about; but withall hath carried away ſeveral houſes and Families, inſomuch that of Men, Women and children already above thirty corpſe ſound, & many more is believed to be loſt, Of a ſuddain the waters roſe between the Mountains 14 fathom high. In that part where the Mountain was, one Woman was leſt alive, who gave an account of the Dreadfulneſs thereof, which ſhe ſaith was as well by Hailſtones of an incredible bigneſs as by the Vaſt Cloud coming down at once, that ſhe by a wonderfull providence eſcap'd, and had it been in the night many hundred perſons more had been deſtroyed as well as their houſes & great numbers of Cattle drowned. All fiſh for ſeveral miles up the River are deſtroyed by the blackneſs and muddyneſs, of the water which the ſurface of that mountain made, of Salmon above 7 or 8 hundred ſound already dead on the ſhore, of Ecles and all other ſmall freſh water fiſh is finite numbers deſtroyed, that it is nor cannot be believed in th • ſe Rivers one fiſh is leſt alive, Tis too tedious to relate the whole matter, But he is as dreadfull to this Countrey as you can Imagine, by being much worſe than I here give you.