THere happened near this place so strange and so sad an accident that I think the like hath been seldome known. On Saturday last about ten of the Clock in the day, we heard much Thunder within 15 miles from hence, made many great brea­ches in a Mountain, and such spouts of water fell upon the places so broken up, that the Flood hurri­ried the loossened Earth with it to the bottom, and swell'd a Brook which ran there, and comes into the Rivers by this place, so suddenly that it carried away all that stood before it, People who lived near the Bauck had not time to get out of their houses, but their goods, houses and all were swept along with it and perished, the Beast that fed near it were lost, the very Fish were stifled by the Earth which the Currant brought with it great quanti­ties of Salmon, Trouts, and Lamperies, which Ine­ver saw here before, even the Eeles that live in the 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 Deluge began, and truely I was amazed to see a Mountain torn in above ten several places and all the low Ground by the River for ten miles together, covered with the Ruines the Corn-fields buried, and the people poking in the mud and Earth for the Bodies of their Friends and of their Cattel I cannot yet learn exactly how many have perished but by the accounts that are given there are lost in several places fifty Souls and abundance of Cattle.