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€0 SUDDEN AND VIOLENT INUNDATION.
several parts, and transplanted them.—In August 1796, it
was reaped, when it produced 137 ears; the average of
which was 80 grains in each ear ; the total produce 10,960
grains of wheat, besides the straw, most of which was seven
feet high. This clearly shews, what a prodigious saving
there is even in the common mode of setting, or what is
termed dibbling, in comparison with the general practice
of sowing the seed corn.
SUDDEN AND VIOLENT INUNDATION’.
Jn the beginning of April 1792, the inhabitants of Broms-
grove, were alarmed and distressed beyond description, by
one of the most violent and sudden inundations ever known.
Between three and four o’clock, during a storm, accom-
panied with loud and continued claps of 'thunder, and the
most vivid lightning, a water-spout fell upon that part of
the Lickey which is nearest the town. The pouring down
of the cataract was heard to a considerable distance, and
the body of water taking a direction towards Bromsgrove,
soon swept away every thing before it, laid down the
hedges, washed quantities of grain from barns and malt-
houses, destroyed tan-yards ; and so strong was the current,
that it floated through the town a waggon loaded with
skins. The inhabitants of the place had no time to take
the necessary precautions ; almost in an instant the cellars
and under-kitchens were filled to the top, and every thing
in them overturned. In a few minutes the water entered
at the parlour windows, covered the counter^ of shops, and
in the principal street it rose and continued upwards of five
feet perpendicular from the pavement. The horses in
some of the inn-stables, stood up to their tails in water.—-
Pius washed from their styes, were swimming through the
passages of the houses situated between the brook and the
principal street; down which quantities of furniture, brew-
ing utensils, cloathing, shop articles, grain, garden-pails,
wheel-
several parts, and transplanted them.—In August 1796, it
was reaped, when it produced 137 ears; the average of
which was 80 grains in each ear ; the total produce 10,960
grains of wheat, besides the straw, most of which was seven
feet high. This clearly shews, what a prodigious saving
there is even in the common mode of setting, or what is
termed dibbling, in comparison with the general practice
of sowing the seed corn.
SUDDEN AND VIOLENT INUNDATION’.
Jn the beginning of April 1792, the inhabitants of Broms-
grove, were alarmed and distressed beyond description, by
one of the most violent and sudden inundations ever known.
Between three and four o’clock, during a storm, accom-
panied with loud and continued claps of 'thunder, and the
most vivid lightning, a water-spout fell upon that part of
the Lickey which is nearest the town. The pouring down
of the cataract was heard to a considerable distance, and
the body of water taking a direction towards Bromsgrove,
soon swept away every thing before it, laid down the
hedges, washed quantities of grain from barns and malt-
houses, destroyed tan-yards ; and so strong was the current,
that it floated through the town a waggon loaded with
skins. The inhabitants of the place had no time to take
the necessary precautions ; almost in an instant the cellars
and under-kitchens were filled to the top, and every thing
in them overturned. In a few minutes the water entered
at the parlour windows, covered the counter^ of shops, and
in the principal street it rose and continued upwards of five
feet perpendicular from the pavement. The horses in
some of the inn-stables, stood up to their tails in water.—-
Pius washed from their styes, were swimming through the
passages of the houses situated between the brook and the
principal street; down which quantities of furniture, brew-
ing utensils, cloathing, shop articles, grain, garden-pails,
wheel-