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Gentleman's Magazine 1754 p.465
[ex]pecting that the trees to which they had fled for safety, should be torn up by the roots, and the hay overturned by the innundation.
It is perhaps impossible, for the strongest imagination to accumulate circumstances of greater horror, and these were produced by a concurrence of various causes, which perhaps may happen no more. I have therefore been particular in my account, in hopes that you will preserve it to posterity, and the rather as I find in the memorials of your royal society, and of the academies abroad, that such events are never thought below their notice.
Cockermouth, Cumberland, October 3, 1754. Yours &c. G.S.
Description of the PLATE.
A, a farm house that was abandoned that night.
B, a mill that was demolished.
C, stacks and trees where a farmer saved himself and his family.
D, the high road from Keswic to Ambleside.
E cataracts of stone and water over-turning the wall G in many places.
F, high mountains about a mile in acclivity beyond the rugged hill H H, which furnished water to fill the channels and which stopped the tempestuous cloud.
Q Q Q channels formed by the descending conflux of waters from the mountains F F.
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