To the Editor of the Dear S1e,—I noticed a few days since, in your evening contemporary, an able article on the rapid changes that are being effected in the course of the river, on the banks of which this lively port is situated.
That the East-end of the bund is daily being encroached upon, is visible to the most near-sighted, quite fifteen fect has been already washed away; last night a large mass fell in, and this morning another ominous crack about two foot nearer to our devoted houses is to be seen, Facetious residents (not landholders) living further down the Settlement and apparently safe, seem to think it rather good fun, and gently chaff the trembling inhabi tants of No. 1 lot; who however do not see the joke in the same light, knowing a8 they do that at the rate the rapacious River God is now swallowing up the narrow
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