Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-03-17
PHENOMENON-REC E-
DING OF THE WATERS OF LAKE ON
TARIO.

IAASAO'
About year since we published an
article giving an account Of remarkable
phenomenon which was observed at the
mouth of the Genesee River on the 20 h
3 s SepteCeber, 1seS, and which WAS atz,
noticed on the Canadian side on The same
day. From tue log book OF tie Revenue
Cutter, 1t appears that the water at The
mouth ofthe river apparently recedad from
the WHAT, as if going into q body, and
after an interval Of three or four minutes.
as suddenly returned. This extraordinary
action was observed several times within
a few minutes. The fall Of the river was
about two feet, and when the wave re-
turned, the use was about as far above tile
usual level
We have now to record q similar phe-
nomenon which was observed at Grafton
iialbor, Canada, on the afternoon Of the
9Th nst. a writer in the Coburg Star, IN
giving an account Of it, says the lake was
calm and the wind in the north, when sud
denly the lake recedod from the shore il
one immense wave, upwards of three han.
dred and fifty feet, leaving the beach dry
for that distance. The water seemed to
gather itself into vast cone, and immed~
aely returned in one unbroken wave, four
feet higher than it usually is, burying the
wharf completely, and OVERLOOKING It's
usual boundaries upwards of hundred
yards, sweeping every thing before it, ac-
companjed by a dreadful noise. This oc-
Cured eight or nine times, gradually de-
creasng in violence until the lake resumed
its usual appearance. Where there is usu-
ally over twelve feet Of wa.er, admitting
the largest steamboats,, there was only two
feet, and on its return the water stood d
foot deep in an engine house, which is OUcr
t0o hundred feet from tie shorei A boat
laying high and dry side the barbor compa-
ny's scow, WIS lifted up bodily and washed
ca top OF the boot.
The same phenomenon was also obser-
we'd a, number of other places along the
banks of the lake. AT Grafton i! WAS ac-
companied oy heavy thunderstorm.
At the time the first OF these remarka.
bic occurrences were noticed, Is 10, the
subject called out several communications,
epdeavorng 10 account for Them, but none
were complete or satisfactory. They not
only attracted the attention OF men OF sci
| ence IN our immediate region. bat OF Other
po',lons OF the State. OF course all the
causes assigned for this singular phenome
non, were but matters of specua;ion.-
Some writer's suggested that it was an
earthquake, the main force Of which was
spent in some far off region; but as no &C.
count OF such catastrophe reached US,
bearing a corresponding date, The idea was
gwen up. Oilers thought it was plainIy
attributable 10 an emission ola vast volume
of steam Or gas, swelling anu dividing the
waters fiom lis vortex
The first occurrence Of the kind. caused
no liille alarm at several ports in Canada,
and The recent one $ ems TO have equally
agitated the Inhabitants. For our part we
should Ike 10 have il satisfactorily &C
counted for hy scientific men. That The
phenomenon occurred, as stated above,
tu3l as remarkable in lis character, there is
probably not iha least doubi, having been
observed by numlser OF individuals at
difTerea. places. Ii IS certainly remtrka-
bie Fl Rochester Advertiser.