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It was on Saturday that the rain began. One may see when looking south-west from St. Nicholas estate, two others, Adventure on the left and Castle on the right. St. Nicholas buildings are near midway between these places and this house. Rain clouds began to form in the south-west in the morning of saturday and were borne by the wind over Boscobel village. But it was only when they got over this vicinity that they seem to have emptied themselves as “Cloud Bursts”. Adventure had 9.31 inches of rain from Saturday to Tuesday morning, the Castle, 9.50, St,. Nicholas 15.17, while over this place much more fell than on July 5th. when over 20 inches were recorded. Observe the great difference in rainfall at St. Nicholas, and the two nearest estates below it.

On Tuesday morning, a neighbouring manager riding by, stopped for a few minutes. He remarked that he had been riding near the cliff and had heard a curious grating sound among the rocks.” It would have been interesting to have found the cause”, I observed. “It might have been a landslip to carry me away”, he replied jestingly, “in which case it is far more interesting to my family for me to be away”. Yet neither of us thought that this was really the beginning of the greatest landslip ever known in this locality, involving hundreds of acres of land and a great many houses. At about 11 a.m. the alarm was raised of a serious subsidence to windward of the cliff, and hurrying up to this, I saw a scene I am not likely to look upon again. A vast extent of land beginning at the foot of the cliff was in motion. Yet, for the most part it was silent motion, save when here and there, huge masses of rock breaking from the hillocks, which used to form a feature of this place, thundered away to the level below, or again when, with less noise they sometimes turned over their ash grey heads and rolled away from sight. Fissures appeared in all directions and now and again small stones went tinkling down their depths. Yet, considering the vast convulsion, the distinguishing mark was silence. In the distance were to be seen a few sheep which could not be saved, and which betrayed great uneasiness, but on the other hand, three goats some further distance on continued to graze with the utmost indifference, merely starting back occasionally when fissures opened before them or a stone rolled by. The writer saw the site of a house of one of the congregation at Boscobel Chapel. There was no house and not so much as one stone of the wall remained standing on another.