Lancaster Gazette

RISE OF THE NASHAWAY.

A correspondent informs us that we were in error in the statement made in our first number, respecting the rise of the river in this town the last autumn. He thinks the swells have been greater in August and September a considerable number of times. He states particularly that on the 22d of September, 1787, the north branch of the river was at least four feet higher than it was any time last autumn: that he went on to a field then improved by him near Leominster line, and could get only within about 25 rods of the river; that at a short distance above, the water had but little chance to spread, on account of the high lands on the sides of the river, and that the current verged from this contracted spot with such force that it seemed to have no power of turning, notwithstanding the surface of the water on the flat was two or three feet lower than the current. A sheet of water rolled off the edge of the current like rolling down a dam of 2 or 3 feet descent, and the flood-wood passed down on the current with the rapidity of a horse at full speed. At what is called Poniken mills, 2 miles below, the water cut a channel round the north end of the dam, and carried off from 2 to 3 acres of land, then occupied as a cornfield, to the depth of from 4 to 6 feet.