Gents Mag 1760 p.520

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1760 p.520
water spout   Brackenthwaite
	Waterspout, Brackenthwaite An authentic Account of a Water-Spout, which mostly fell upon Brackenthwaite in the County of Cumberland, on Sept. 19, 1760; by an Eye-witness. THE village of Brackenthwaite, which is part of a large valley extending from N. to S. about five miles in length, and one and a half in breadth, is bounded on the E. by a ridge of very lofty mountains, running from N. to S. the southermost of which, Grassmere, is reputed the highest in England, except Skeddow: its top is quite level, and exceeding spacious, so as almost to equal its base; northward of it there are three others, which rise regularly, and unite in one narrow summit, somewhat lower than Grassmere; with the extremity of which it is connected by a narrow inclined plain. Down the gullies, between these mountains, descend three small brooks, Lizza, Hopebeck, and Habcorton, in streams little more than sufficient to turn an ordinary mill; the first of these enters the plain about the middle; the second at the most northern part of Brackenthwaite; and the third farther northward, at the village of Larton. On the summit, which is common to all the three mountains, and forms as it were their joint top, seems to have been one of the breakings, or falls of water, as all the three brooks were affected by it, nearly all in the same degree. But what made the mischief produced by the others less condsiderable than that by the Lizza, was a second spout on the extremity of the top of Grassmere, the whole of whose waters fell into its channel. This second was the chief cause of the damage which ensued in
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