Drought. – While accounts from all other Atlantic states speak of rain in fertile abundance, and from the western states of destructive floods, the drought in Maine has become melancholy and distressing. Nothing equal to it has occurred since the first settlement of Penobscot. Vegetation is “scared as with a hot iron”; rivers have become rivulets, and the small streams have vanished. It is difficult in many places to procure a sufficient supply of water for domestic purposes. Cattle are driven two miles to water, and many families send one or more for themselves. The atmosphere is surcharged with dense smoke; and, what is more alarming, fires are raging at large through the extensive forests and cultivated grounds. Unless we have rain soon, the utmost distress will be experienced.
The Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, PA
1 Oct 1823 Page 4 (Contributed by Nancy Piper)
From: Belfast Maine paper, Sept. 17

---

HOME

DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY
Submitters retain all copyrights
©Genealogy Trails