Sunday Morning last, the Ice in Skuylkyl, tho’ prodigious thick and strong, broke up with a Fresh, and came down in Heaps, vast Cakes rouling over and over, in a terrible Manner, breaking great Trees where the Flood came over the low Land. Such a great Quantity of Ice being apt to damn [sic] the River in some Places, it rais’d the Water exceedingly, and drove with greater Violence when those Dams were broken. It carried away the Flats of two Ferries, and did other considerable Damage. The Water was near two Foot and a half high on the Ground Floor of Joseph Grey’s House at the middle Ferry; which is much higher than any Fresh is known to have been before in that River: But the House was not four foot under Water, as another Account says, meaning, ’tis like, that four foot of the House was under Water.