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 .