Dreadful Inundation on the Continent
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Further accounts have been lecelYea on
the calamitous effects Of the late floods IN the
Low Countries. One account, conmunica-
ted by Captain, of the Hanoycrian Engi-
neers. dated Stads, on the Elbe, Feb S, is
truly distressing: The writer states, =" The
horrors of the nipnt from the 3tl, to the 4th,
of February. can never be effacel from my
memory, were - live to the age a a Patr-
arch. About / O'Clock, after mldn5ht, the
warning guns from the fortress OF Stdde,
were fired to denote to the low lands thai tine
tide was unusually high. was, then standin5
on an elevated spot, whence, as the moon
peeped through the dark and lowering clouds
could see houses and villages, to consid-
cradle distance, and the ground covered with
snow. At about hait-after one the wind
became tcmpestuous, and the water instant
ly gained four feet, and continued to tisc a
midst the howling OF the wind, the firing CT
and flashes of lightning, TIL, all at once, a
rushing OF the mighty waters announced the
demolition OF the dykes.


The scene was now tcrril1cally grand. a
long the whole hhe, far as the eye couldreach
the destructive progress OF the mighty mas
of water was easily to be distinguished by
tht melting Of the snow; while to hcighteI
tits horrors, the near and distant shrlcks o
the Inhabitants, mingled with the mtiahcho
" .owings Of the drowning cattle, were hear'
IN the intervals of the storm.


At length, the morning dawned-but alas
of the most fertile province Of Hanover, no
thing was to be seen but the tops Of house
and trees. Boats were on the tops of tn
lowest houses, and to convey provisions t
those in the hay lofts. The number of live
lost exceeded ono hundred, but sickness wa
anprehended-to such adegrce OF ;!estitutio
were the inhabitants reduced. Many VIII
were but few hours before in competence
are now wanderers on the face of the eartl
1t is hoped that subscription may be set o