PART TWO:
SEPTEMBER 1846
[A] rapid torrent of mud and water issued forth, varying from twenty to thirty yards in width, and from four to five in depth; which, in its course for six or seven miles, entirely threw down or made breaches in several stone and wooden bridges—uprooted trees—laid prostrate walls . . .
—Patrick Brontë, The Phenomenon; or, an Account in Verse, of the Extraordinary Disruption of a Bog,
Which took place in the Moors of Haworth, On the 12th day of September, 1824