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From the Richmond Enquirer.TO THE EDITOR.South West Mountains, blh Aug. 1819.StR—This section ot 'he stale is visited, this season, by a drought ot'almost unprecedented duration. It* effects on llie corn crop and «v water courses, surpass those produced by the great brought in the year 1806. It is only by vast exertion with the hand-spike tbat boats loaded w.tb three hogsheads of tobacco can be gotten over the shallows of James Ri-er. The rnilis are nearly all dry ; and the corn is withering in the fields. From information which I have recently received by letter, ; and verbaUy, from different sources, it appears that this calamity not only extends in a hue Irorn N. Carolina to Maryland,t . -I _ _ ’.1.11. .
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Alexandria Gazette and Daily Advertiser

Alexandria, Virginia, US

Fri, Aug 13, 1819

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