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<DATE>2008-04-05</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080310.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A TRUE RLLATION OF A mo&s;t &s;trange and wonderful Tempe&s;t which hapned on <DATE>the 29th of <HI>June</HI> 1680.</DATE> at <HI>Newtown-Stewart</HI> in <HI>Ireland</HI> as it was communicated in a Letter by a Gentleman to his friend in <HI>London</HI></HEAD>
<P>THere happened near this place &s;o &s;trange and &s;o &s;ad an accident that I think the like hath been &s;eldome known. On Saturday la&s;t about ten of the Clock in the day, we heard much Thunder within 15 miles from hence, made many great brea|ches in a Mountain, and &s;uch &s;pouts of water fell upon the places &s;o broken up, that the Flood hurri|ried the loo&s;&s;ened Earth with it to the bottom, and &s;well'd a Brook which ran there, and comes into the Rivers by this place, &s;o &s;uddenly that it carried away all that &s;tood before it, People who lived near the Bauck had not time to get out of their hou&s;es, but their goods, hou&s;es and all were &s;wept along with it and peri&s;hed, the Bea&s;t that fed near it were lo&s;t, the very Fi&s;h were &s;tifled by the Earth which the Currant brought with it great quanti|ties of Salmon, Trouts, and Lamperies, which Ine|ver &s;aw 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 curio&s;ity took me ye&s;terday to the place where this Deluge began, and truely I was amazed to &s;ee a Mountain torn in above ten &s;everal 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 peri&s;hed but by the accounts that are given there are lo&s;t in &s;everal places fifty Souls and abundance of Cattle.</P>
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<P><HI>London</HI> printed for <HI>William Engli&s;h</HI> at the <HI>Crown</HI> in <HI>Chancery-Lane.</HI></P>
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