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Domestic News
December 30, 1789
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Rising waters in Lake Ontario have flooded buildings, meadows, and roads, alarming border inhabitants. A brew-house at Niagara is now unusable due to submersion. Speculation suggests underground passage from higher Lake Erie causing the rise.
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PROVIDENCE, Dec. 12.
LAKE ONTARIO.
The waters in Lake Ontario have from their continual advances, alarmed the inhabitants around its borders to a great degree. Several buildings which stood at a convenient distance from its ancient boundaries, now stand seven feet in the water. The low meadows made around it, are now part of the Lake, and roads where cattle, horses and men travelled eighteen months ago, now only passable for boats. The last information is from a man of integrity who receives letters from his son at Niagara upon this subject. In his last letter he informed him, that a brew-house which stood on the bank of the Lake is now rendered useless, from its second story being under water.
It is supposed that the waters of Lake Erie (which is near three hundred feet above those of Ontario) have found a passage among the rocks, under ground to the Lake of Ontario, if this should be the case, the waters of Ontario will raise to a level with those of Lake Erie.
LAKE ONTARIO.
The waters in Lake Ontario have from their continual advances, alarmed the inhabitants around its borders to a great degree. Several buildings which stood at a convenient distance from its ancient boundaries, now stand seven feet in the water. The low meadows made around it, are now part of the Lake, and roads where cattle, horses and men travelled eighteen months ago, now only passable for boats. The last information is from a man of integrity who receives letters from his son at Niagara upon this subject. In his last letter he informed him, that a brew-house which stood on the bank of the Lake is now rendered useless, from its second story being under water.
It is supposed that the waters of Lake Erie (which is near three hundred feet above those of Ontario) have found a passage among the rocks, under ground to the Lake of Ontario, if this should be the case, the waters of Ontario will raise to a level with those of Lake Erie.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Weather
What keywords are associated?
Lake Ontario
Rising Waters
Flooding
Niagara
Brew House
Where did it happen?
Lake Ontario
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Lake Ontario
Event Date
Dec. 12
Outcome
buildings flooded, including a brew-house at niagara with second story underwater; roads and meadows submerged; no human casualties mentioned.
Event Details
Continual rising waters in Lake Ontario have alarmed inhabitants; buildings now seven feet underwater; low meadows part of the lake; roads passable only by boats; information from Niagara via letters.