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Gentleman's Magazine 1749 p.389

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Storms, Cockermouth

Cockermouth, Cumberland, September 3.
IN the night between the 22d and 23d ult. in the midst of the most terrible lightning and thunder that ever was seen and heard; a large rock near the tops of the mountain was rent assunder; out of which came so great a deluge of water, and with such violence and rapidity, as carried all before it, such as solid stones of incredible weight, houses, barns, mills, &c. and even erased their very foundations, so that you cannot now tell where they stood; the mill stones are carried some hundred yards from the mill, and tossed upon the rubbish and sand, the quantity of which is so great that it has laid waste a great tract of arable and meadow land, which will for the future be for
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