5 I left Bradford in company with Leonard Hardy
rode to Boston. I returned home & hoed my Garden over
in the Afternoon And found my vegitable had grown
half their size in 3 days I perused several papers to day
And found the Missippi River had flooded more then
half the city of New Orleans the rivrer had broak thro
ugh the levies & was Almost destroying that city All
the burying grounds were under water the Court
Houses floodied so that men had to float about on Hen
coops pig trouth crockery crates & any thing they could
get onto in order to go from House to House. Alligaters
& serpaents of all kinds take up their aresidence in the
city & enter into the Houses. their is great destruction
at the present time of life & property by flood, fire, plague
pestilence & war in all the Earth war is begining to be
poured out upon the Whore of all the Earth in fulfillment of
the word of God. The cholera is raging in the western
world to A great degree And A number of the Saints
have fallen with the rest "A letter from Jefferson Mo
says that there had been 52 deaths out of 150 on the Monroe
Br Appleby was on that boat. Br Hardy spent the night with [me] 30 m
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