Extract of a Letter from Petersfield, March 31.
“Among the many surprising Events occasioned by the great Rains this Winter, I cannot omit to mention one in particular, of a very extraordinary Nature, that happened in the Parish of Hawksey; where a steep hanging Wood, growing on the Side of a Hill, slipped down 180 Yards, and left a perpendicular Rock, like one standing up in the Sea, sixty Feet high; the Ground in ten or twelve Fields below the Hill was sunk, and cracked in several Places; and a Farm-house and Cottage standing near it had the Walls rent asunder, which so alarmed the poor Inhabitants, that they ran out in the Middle of the Night in the utmost Consternation, for fear of being buried alive.”
