Two people at Baileys' Mills occupied themselves so long in removing their property, that they could not get with safety to the main land, and repaired to

MEMOIR OF THE a small clump of trees in the channel which, lamentable to say, were afterwards swept ;

away, and no doubt these two persons were drowned. One of the laborers, lately on the works was also drowned. No dwelling house above the dam was carried away. John

Tompkins, below the dam, lost his dwelling house, which was of small value, say five or six hundred dollars, and his son,John Tompkins, lost a grist mill and dam, value fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars. Two small dwelling houses at Bailey's Factory were also lost. The Wire Mill of the Messrs. Bailey's, supposed to be worth, with the two small houses above, from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars, was also swept away. An old grist mill, called Hallman's Mill, which had been abandoned, and not worked for many years, of little value, was also swept away. These are all the losses which have come to our knowledge on the Crotori River, and all the losses to everybody above and below the dam, including the dam, are considerably inside of $75,000."

No other parts of the aqueduct were injured by the storm, and the Commissioners conclude this their first report with expressions of satisfaction, that thus far " the aqueduct on the line stood remarkably well, the culverts had been sufficient to discharge the waters from the valleys and streams, and the embankments had been but little washed or