Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

There is not a greater instance of the extreme drought of the present season in Europe, than the following, which is selected out of a letter from a house of eminence in the commercial line at Dort, in Holland.

"You will scarce believe that in a country like this (watery by nature) that we complain of drought ;-- but such is absolutely the case at present. No rain having fell in this country for upwards of four months, and the continued easterly winds have so emptied the Rhine, Locke, Maese, and Dartze, that there are not in many places sufficient water to carry vessels over the shoals. Our wells are uncommonly low; and as a greater phenomenon, at the Kiender Dycke (which is famed in history for the circumstance of 73 villages being overflowed by its breaking in the year 1671), the waters are so low, that the very foundation of that stupendous fabrick is now to be seen, and workmen are repairing it in many places. Such a circumstance has not occurred in the memory of the oldest man now in Holland:"